Sculptor A, one of three newly discovered dwarf galaxies - and unrelated to the well-known Sculptor spiral galaxy - is visible here as a faint accumulation of stars beyond several bright stars in ...

The three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies reside in a region of space isolated from the environmental influence of larger objects. Containing only very old stars, they support the theory that star ...

mag). The fields provide a rich set of faint field galaxies that are observable with a natural guide star adaptive optics (AO) system on a large telescope. Because of the small fields of many AO ...

NASA images: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) collection of these five stunning star images depicting ... Creation” that appears in faint yellow-green colour inside ...

Light from distant galaxies behind the massive galaxy cluster appears distorted in a curved image ... like stars or planets. It acts like a huge magnifying glass that can magnify faint starlight ...