Astronomers have employed the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to observe an ultra-diffuse galaxy known as VCC 615. Results of ...

Just like volcanologists monitor volcano activity to predict eruptions, astronomers can monitor stars to predict explosions.

Using the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico, astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of the Swelling ...

Busy Galactic Center: The spiral galaxy IC 4709, located in the southern constellation Telescopium, lies around 240 million ...

A brand-new James Webb Space Telescope image captures the steady, slow lifestyle of the distinctive Sombrero Galaxy.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...

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 cluster of galaxies is the ...

Situated approximately 55 million light-years away, M90 is part of the Virgo Cluster, a collection of galaxies that is ...

M90 sits among the galaxies of the relatively nearby Virgo Cluster, and its orbit took M90 on a path near the cluster’s center about three hundred million years ago. The density of gas in the ...

The dwarf galaxy is one of many forcing its way through the comparatively dense gas in the massive Virgo cluster of galaxies. M17, also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan Nebula, is one of the ...