Of all the constellations that we see through the year over Butler, Virgo the Virgin is the second largest. The only problem ...

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study ...

galaxy collisions occur. One such collision can be seen in the lower right of the image of the Virgo cluster below. Galaxies at the center of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies The largest nearby ...

Fully grown galaxy clusters, like the Virgo cluster which contains our galaxy and its local group, are large, gravitationally bound structures dominated by mature elliptical galaxies with little ...

NASA’s image of NGC 628, also known as the Phantom Galaxy, reveals a stunning face-on spiral galaxy with gracefully winding arms, located about 32 million light-years from Earth.

objects or events you can see in the sky.

Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

A recent study of the NGC 5018 galaxy group, located about 132.5 million light years away in the Virgo constellation, provides new insights into its globular cluster (GC) system. Researchers ...

Japanese astronomers have presented new results of observations that suggest an unidentified X-ray source designated AX J145732−5901 is a cluster of galaxies behind the galactic plane.