Messier 31 is located 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and was a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

The Hubble Telescope captured the central region of Messier 96, a spiral galaxy similar in size to the Milky Way. NASA Hubble Space Telescope recently captured this beautiful image of NGC 4826 ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

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The bright glow of the globular cluster NGC 2031 shines in the Mensa constellation within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. In the Trapezium embedded cluster ...

Charles Messier ... Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...