The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that was imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
In a remarkable astronomical discovery, a team of researchers led by Yale University has uncovered an extraordinary galaxy ...
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
From vibrant star-forming nebulae to supernova explosions, check out these 7 astonishing images of deep space shared by NASA.
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... objects in our universe. The Event Horizon ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
These glass plates recorded images of the night sky using ... who had argued that the Milky Way encompassed the entire universe. “Here is the letter that destroyed my universe,” Shapley ...