An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target.

The image captures HE0435-1223, one of the best lensed quasars, with four bright images formed by a foreground galaxy. This gravitational lensing effect creates a stunning celestial arrangement. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of ...

Famous astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured a 400-megapixel shot of the Andromeda Galaxy. According to him, this is the largest project - it took him 3 month to make. The photographer shared his ...

Veil Nebula: A small section of the Veil Nebula is visible in the image, captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope. Rings Of ...

Caldwell 103 is a treasure of the southern night sky. Also cataloged as NGC 2070 and often called the Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus, this chimerical structure is nestled in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’: This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope‘s Wide ...