A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

In the century since Hubble's pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly ...

In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly ...

His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow Shapley, who had argued that the Milky ...

the nebulae form a vast star-forming 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, a satellite galaxy ...