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Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...
Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...
The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.
Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...
From the fiery Dragon Eye to the majestic Seagull Nebula, explore 10 breathtaking NASA images that capture the stunning ...
Both galaxies can be visible in the night sky: The Milky Way, which stretches across the night sky from the constellations Cassiopeia to Cygnus, and the Andromeda Galaxy appears above this 3000 ...
In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...
Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...
Even though humans have been looking at the night sky for millenia, not everyone sees the same sky. Not even the constellations are same for everyone.
In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation.
Welcome To The Andromeda Galaxy Andromeda is 2.5 million light years from the Milky Way. Cmosmically speaking, that's very close. It's home to at least a trillion stars. The Milky Way, meanwhile ...