Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

This survey made use of a special mode present in the telescope called "pure parallel ... Zhúlóng galaxy has been determined to be 12.8 billion years away from Earth, stated Space.

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. In fact, the team ...

“This discovery highlights the potential of pure parallel programs for uncovering rare, distant objects that stress-test galaxy formation models.” Discovering Zhúlóng shows that this is a sound ...

Researchers have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer ...