The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view reveals the galaxy's structure, including its bright bulge and dusty disc.

This detailed view reveals the galaxy's structure, including its bright bulge and dusty disc. Located 30 million light-years away, the Sombrero Galaxy has a supermassive black hole.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

Type c-D elliptical galaxies are a subtype of giant elliptical galaxies and are characterized by a large halo of stars. Lenticular galaxies are an intermediate galaxy between elliptical galaxies and ...

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...

The image is actually a mosaic stitched from multiple Hubble observations, since the galaxy’s size exceeds Hubble’s narrow field of view. Viewed nearly edge-on—tilted just six degrees from its equator ...

This is a good time to see the Milky Way, which is part of our own galaxy. Looking to the south from late evening ... In the pre-dawn sky, Saturn is in the south east and lower down in the east is ...

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The earliest galaxies may have scrambled our reading of the Universe. A new study challenges the traditional interpretation of the cosmic microwave background, this fossil light from the Big Bang.

At the aphelion, the distance from the Earth’s center to the Sun’s center is going to be 152,087,738 kilometers (94,502,939 ...