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 ...

But not everything in our galaxy (or beyond) is the outcome of such ostentatious chaos. Some of the most visually captivating ...

A few young stars shine through dense clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula’s Trapezium embedded ... in the Large ...

From the mystique of the Pillars of Creation to a sneak peek into the the deepest parts of our universe, check out these 10 ...

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 ...

The extraordinary images -- taken with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope -- show a galaxy that glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that formed at different times, much like our own Milky Way.

Extraordinary new images released by NASA have captured the formation of a galaxy similar in mass to our own Milky Way in its early stages of development. The James Webb Space Telescope has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.