In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the ...

In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, is unveiled in Hubble's largest photomosaic. Spanning a decade, this ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, demonstrating that the Milky Way is not the whole universe, ...

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) captured a breathtaking view of the vast Andromeda Galaxy, also knwon as Messier 31 or M31. NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured the ...

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

NASA has released this photomosaic in two images that can be downloaded from its website: ...

What's better than a telescope for viewing the sky - a smart telescope of course and this Dwarf 3 from Dwarflab is just about ...

The Milky Way belongs to this class, as well as our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Globular clusters are often mentioned in the same breath as galaxies, so they deserve a nod.