Oh, and it takes pictures too – it's astrophotography ... You get a list of galaxies, nebulae and distant planets, together ...

Found on an X account appropriately named ‘Space’, these spectacular images of distant galaxies, nebulae, and planetary ...

It is part of the immense Virgo Cluster, which harbors nearly 2,000 galaxies. The "Lost Galaxy" moniker was assigned by amateur astronomer Leland S. Copeland in the 1950s, prompted by its foggy ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Here’s how it works. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering what happened to today in ...

NASA often shares images of nebulae, explaining the intricate complexities of the cosmos. This Hubble's image of gas and dust in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula extends a better ...

Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they were independent galaxies, extremely large and distant. At the time ...

For example, pictures of galaxies that include strange rings and arcs of light could be explained if the light from even more distant galaxies is being distorted and magnified by massive ...

Bubble Nebula: Spanning 7 light-years across, and about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, the Bubble Nebula resides 7,100 light-years ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond ... He was researching nebulae, fuzzy patches of light in the sky. In 1924, he announced ...