Look for the three stars that make up the distinctive formation of Orion's Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka — shining ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...

Michael Bakich selected visually stunning celestial objects observed through telescopes, including Omega Centauri, the 2010 total solar eclipse over Easter Island, Thor's Helmet nebula, and the Jewel ...

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Due to its stellar activity, the galaxy has become a favorite for astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

The Heart Nebula (IC 1805) is a large star-forming region. It contains a young star cluster (Melotte 15). The nebula is about 7,500 light-years away and over 300 light-years across. Viewing requires a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, with data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, together captured the dusty core of the Butterfly Nebula. ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Matsuura, ALMA ...