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The Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away, has fascinated observers for centuries. Once believed to be part of the Milky Way, everything changed in 1923 when Edwin Hubble identified ...
The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have captured amazing views of spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Credit: ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...
Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...
Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...
Climbing to 60° high in the east two hours before sunrise, the constellation Andromeda lies just to the upper right of the easy-to-spot W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. This morning, let’s enjoy a ...
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Postman, P. Kelly Hubble’s latest portrait zooms into Abell 209, a colossal galaxy cluster 2.8 ...
Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...