The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after ...

These bright stars shining through what looks like a haze in the night sky are part of a young stellar grouping in one of the largest known star formation regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), ...

The infrared surveyor AKARI, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission with ESA participation, is nearing the completion of its first scan of the entire sky. During this phase of the mission ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A sparkling cloudscape is revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which used its instruments to ...

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly challenging. For example, there has been a debate among astronomers for decades ...

There might not be a pot of gold found at the end of this rainbow-like puff, but the image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) — a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way — does offer a detailed assessment ...

Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly ...

This new image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions, and NASA’s ...

The first generation of stars transformed the universe. Inside their cores, simple hydrogen and helium fused into a rainbow of elements. When these stars died, they exploded and sent these new ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an electric sea of stars glimmering against a background of pinpricks of light. The space agency released the star-striking image on Friday, Dec. 2, as its image ...

Once again, the High Energy Stereoscopic System, H.E.S.S., has demonstrated its excellent capabilities. In the Large Magellanic Cloud, it discovered most luminous very high-energy gamma-ray sources: ...