Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
Gaia is an astrometry mission that's built an impressive map of the Milky Way by taking three trillion observations of two ...
Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...