The galactic masterpiece combines over 100 exposures to reveal previously unseen features of stars in formation.

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a mind-blowing deep-field image of a tiny sliver of the sky, revealing that nearly every speck of light is a galaxy. This extraordinary ...

Measuring over 500,000 light-years across—five times the size of the Milky Way—NGC6872 is the second largest spiral galaxy discovered to date, according to NASA.

A composite image of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope of a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 1672, which is located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado.

A section of the new view of the Sculptor galaxy, featuring thousands of colors ESO Some ten million light-years away from Earth sits a brilliant spiral galaxy officially called NGC 253 but known ...

This image shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Regions of pink light are spread throughout this ...

This image shows an artist’s reconstruction of the star WOH G64, the first star outside our galaxy to be imaged in close-up. It is located at a staggering distance of over 160 000 light-years ...

Hubble's new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll. Messier 104 was discovered back in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain—and has since been the ...

The observations cover an area of the galaxy 65,000 light-years across. Among the first studies of the map, the team looked for planetary nebulae, the regions of dust and gas that dying stars like ...

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.