On his fourth flight, Don Pettit is once again sharing the art of astrophotography, capturing and posting pictures of Earth, ...

The spiral arms of Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, have been imaged by the Dark Energy Camera in ...

Stunning new photographs by a Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks ...

Dec. 11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an ...

Astronomers have discovered over a thousand photos of asteroids that had been hiding in Hubble images, unnoticed until now.

This image is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90 000 light-years in diameter that lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.

Researchers have identified the birth sites of massive elliptical galaxies, providing new insights into their formation which ...

Meanwhile, distant galaxies glimmer in the background of the image.The galaxy — also known as Messier 104, or M104 — is about 30 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo constellation.