On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. The Andromeda galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, and ...
31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula ... Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy.
The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems ... to other Cepheids across the Milky Way. This is how Shapley reached his estimate for our galaxy's size. But, in order for ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 1,70,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a ...
Hubble had found that two spiral-shaped nebulae, objects made up of gas and stars, which were previously thought to reside within our Milky Way galaxy, were located outside it. These objects were ...
NGC 248 is a glowing nebula in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way The Red Rectangle Nebula is a protoplanetary nebula in ... This image of LH63 Cloaked in Red is ...
And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—show a galaxy that glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that ...