Tag: galaxies

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly ...

A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit Thursday on a lofty mission to map more than ...

The sparkling spiral galaxy gracing this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, which sits about 60 million light-years ...

Back in 1971, a couple of British astronomers predicted the existence of a black hole at the center of our ...

The closest ever Einstein ring, picked up by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescopeESA Astronomers have identified the closest ...

Artist’s illustration of the large-scale structure of the universeScience Photo Library/Alamy Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings ...

The exoplanet K2-18 b may have an ocean of water beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, as shown in this artist’s concept. ...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years away in ...

The quasar J0742+2704 (center) is flanked by a small companion galaxy just to the right, and lying between the quasar ...