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 ...
An image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) shows a striking celestial sight: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, a gorgeous face-on galaxy that is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies ...
The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star ...
The Tarantula Nebula is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, 161,000 light-years from Earth. It's also known as 30 Doradus. The starburst galaxy, called NGC 1569, sparkles with ...