The footage, captured by the Hubble telescope, highlights the Tarantula Nebula. This fascinating region lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. A Star-Forming ...

Redcliffe Lagoon overlooks Moreton Bay on Redcliffe’s foreshore and is a wonderful family destination for swimming. Don’t be confused by the name because the Redcliffe Lagoon is part of Settlement ...

Lagoon nebula: Located about 4000 light-years away ... complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. NGC 602: Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

Messier 1 better known as the Crab Nebula, Charles Messier originally mistook Messier 1 for Halley’s Comet, which inspired him to create his famous catalog of objects. Peering deep into M1, this ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way. Measuring 3.3 million light-years from end-to-end, the cosmic megastructure ...

This figure shows the hydrogen distribution in the plane of the Milky Way's disk. Though it appears outdated to our modern eyes and isn't visually intuitive, it was exciting at the time. (From "The ...

Ireland could face EU fines over the state of the lagoon as it is a priority area under the EU Habitats Directive. Botanist Dr Cillian Roden, one of the authors of the study, said the ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Milky Way mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion observations over the past decade. Gaia was launched on ...