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. A ...
The discovery of something this immense surprisingly early in the lifetime of the universe overturns what we thought we knew ...
This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. Hubble’s Dazzling ...
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...
NASA's Wide-Field infrared Survey Explorer shows the vast Andromeda galaxy in full. This stunning close-up view of the center of the Andromeda galaxy is taken by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, aims to capture high-resolution images of galaxies and cosmic ...
The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...
The seven images of our cosmic neighbors shared by NASA includes VV124, Tucana Dwarf, Tarantula Nebula, NGC 1898, NGC 261, ...
Cores of Two Galaxies Are on a Collision Course For all practical purposes, stars traveling across space never smash into ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with ...
Typically, galaxies with bright cores, called active galactic nuclei (AGN for short), exist very far away. They're often seen ...