In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the ...

Explore NGC 6946, the Fireworks Galaxy—an active starburst galaxy on the Cepheus-Cygnus border known for its high rate of ...

The Webb telescope reveals the Sombrero galaxy’s dusty and turbulent history in a new stunning near-infrared portrait.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has just added to the growing catalog of astronomical discoveries by providing a new ...

The Sombrero galaxy is located about 30 million light-years away from Earth at the edge of the Virgo galaxy cluster, and has ...

The Sombrero galaxy has long had a place in astronomical history as an intriguing object. The first written record of this ...

Francisco Javier Pérez Olvera, Manuel Alejandro Chavarría Silva, George William Hoffman, Kollar Istvan, Jonathan Schwab, ...

Now gather a few hundred billion stars and star clusters together, and you’ve got an immense structure known as a galaxy. The galaxy in which our star — the sun — resides is the Milky Way, so named ...

It can seem quite challenging for stargazers to comprehend the structure of the universe, but it’s really not that difficult. Just think of it as being ...

The history of the Universe, as far back as we can see using a variety of tools and telescopes, out ... More to the maximum present depth of SDSS. We are now up to SDSS-16, which can go all the ...

In the vicinity of the bright star Spica, for example, we find the famous Virgo cluster of galaxies, a system of several thousand galaxies bound together by gravitation and located some 60 or 70 ...

That’s where the mutable signs come in. Each member of this cosmic quartet (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) arrives at the end of a season, pushing us toward transition and preparing us ...