The Ring Nebula is a bright planetary nebula located approximately 2,567 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. With an apparent magnitude of 8.8, it is one of the brightest planetary n… Read More

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, plays the role of a galactic shepherd by controlling the movements of over 60 smaller galaxies. These galaxies, known as satellites, orbit around the Milky Wa… Read More

The exoplanet AU Mic b, in a young planetary system orbiting red dwarf star AU Microscopii, displays unpredictable atmospheric loss. Astronomers are studying this peculiar phenomenon to un… Read More

100 Mind-Blowing Universe Facts The universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old. The observable universe is estimated to contain over 100 billion galaxies. Our Milky Way galaxy… Read More

galaxy, any of the systems of stars and interstellar matter that make up the universe. Many such assemblages are so enormous that they contain hundreds of billions of stars. Nature has provi… Read More

UGCA 307 hangs against an irregular backdrop of distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The small galaxy consists of a diffuse band of stars containing red b… Read More

The Sculptor Galaxy is an intermediate spiral galaxy located approximately 11.4 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor. It is one of the brightest galaxies in the ni… Read More

"Astronomers spotted an unexpected trail in the gas surrounding a dwarf galaxy while using the Hubble Space Telescope...." writes Hot Hardware. "The light emitting from the trail traveled mo… Read More

The Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera took a photo of Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM), which is a dwarf galaxy located nearby the Milky Way. But when NASA’s next-genera… Read More

Astronomy allows us to explore the vastness of the universe and learn about the mysteries that it holds. From the beauty of the night sky to the incredible objects that exist beyond our plan… Read More

Jump to:Black hole discovery How many black holes are there? Black hole images What do black holes look like? Types of black holes Black hole facts Additional r… Read More

As the credits roll and the audience members leave their seats, the movie must leave a mark on the watcher. In the case of comedy movies, usually a sense of fun is left over, with a touch of… Read More

The dwarf galaxy NGC1427A flies by the Fornax galaxy cluster and undergoes disturbances that will not be doable if this galaxy have been surrounded by a heavy and prolonged darkish matter ha… Read More

DSS image centered on NGC 253, showing the area explored by PISCeS, extending up to 100 kpc from the center. Solid blue circles represent the position of dwarfs previous… Read More

Il Gemini North Telescope rivela tracce delle galassie più antiche. Un’esclusiva galassia nana ultraleggera è stata scoperta ai margini esterni della galassia di Andro… Read More

 3 total views,  3 views today Ever because the first human ancestors turned their eyes upwards in the direction of the cover of sunshine shining within the evening… Read More

The Southern Ring Nebula (Eight-Burst Nebula, NGC 3132) is a planetary nebula about 2,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Vela. With an apparent magnitude of 9.87 and an appar… Read More

The Big Dipper is an asterism formed by seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It is one of the most recognizable star patterns in the night sky. The asterism is… Read More

The Whale Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy located at an approximate distance of 30 million light years in the constellation Canes Venatici. It has an apparent magnitude of 9.8 and appears a… Read More

La Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys celebra 20 anni di scoperte. credito: NASA ACS continua a fornire scienza rivoluzionaria. Quando gli astronauti hanno installato l’Advanced Ca… Read More

An optical image of the ultra-diffuse galaxy GMP 4348 in the Coma cluster of galaxies; the scale bar shows a distance of thirty-two thousand light-years. In a spectrosco… Read More

The discovery of a distant Jupiter-like planet orbiting a dead star reveals what may happen in our solar system when the sun dies in about 5 billion years, according to new research. This un… Read More

The Carina Nebula, with Eta Carina, the brightest star inside it, on the left. What appears to be a … [+] single star was identified as a binary back in 2005, and it’s led som… Read More

The Kite is a large northern asterism that dominates the constellation Boötes. Also known as the Ice Cream Cone, it is formed by the constellation’s brightest stars. Like the Big… Read More

//A peculiar white dwarf could be what’s left after a failed supernova explosion.A white dwarf siphons gas from a companion star until it triggers thermonuclear reactions that lea… Read More

Currently, the faint star V Sagittae, V Sge, in the constellation Sagitta, is barely visible, even in mid-sized telescopes. However, around the year 2083, this innocent star will explode, be… Read More

A research team discovered  a pair of earth like planets (Teegarden A and Teegarden B) in our galaxy  and they’re located in the perfect zone for water to form on their presu… Read More