The spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley’s Coronet, is engaged in a gravitational tug of war with its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1531. This image, captured by the D… Read More

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

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

Pegasus V: New Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Spotted in Outskirts of Andromeda Astronomers have discovered a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Pegasus and characterized it usi… 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

"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

Right in the middle of this image, nestled amongst a smattering of distant stars and even more distant galaxies, lies the newly discovered dwarf galaxy known as Donatiello II. If you cannot… 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

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

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

Galaxies are by no means self-contained structures as one likes to imagine them. This is shown by images from the Hubble Space Telescope, which photographed the migration of stars between… 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

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

Astronomers from Leiden Observatory have developed a new method to find distant quasars and better distinguish them from other objects that look like them, using machine learning techniques… 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 Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is a bright, large planetary nebula located 650 light years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth, as well… 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

An article written by: Lee Sonogan “The universe today is 13.8 billion years old. By 22 billion years, the Sun will have finished its main-sequence lifetime and will have become a wh… 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

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes When you look up into the sky, what do you see?  Mostly, you’ll see a portion of the 5,000 stars that humans can see with the naked eye. But with… Read More