"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Astronomers have ...

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly visitor soaring through the Milky Way - a winged cloud of gas and dust that looks like a ...

An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

By analyzing the data from the HASH database, astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of nearly 1,500 planetary ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...

Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula — a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light — creating a swatch of darkness against the glow of bright gas. Fittingly ...

The sheer observing power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such as this. This glowing pink nebula, named NGC 248, is located in the Small Magellanic ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

An interstellar structure known as “God’s Hand” can be seen reaching across the cosmos toward a nearby spiral galaxy in stunning new images captured by the powerful Dark Energy Camera. The "cloudy, ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

The Milky Way is a barred-spiral galaxy about 100,000 light years in diameter, but only about 1,000 light years thick. It contains more than 100 billion stars, and some estimates place that number ...