Right after sunset, the largest and smallest planets are near neighbors in the sky. Jupiter, the brighter of the two, is a ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

In that case, you can see at least a few of the many galaxies that make up the Virgo cluster of galaxies, about 60 million light-years from Earth. As you can see in the diagram, these galaxies are ...

In that case, you can see at least a few of the many galaxies that make up the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, about 60 million light-years from Earth. As seen in the diagram, these galaxies are ...

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study exoplanets and the opportunity to refresh one’s perspectives.

What it is: The Antlia Cluster of galaxies (also called Abell S636 ... Blanco 4-meter Telescope's Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Virgo Cluster in order to help solve one of astronomy's biggest ...