The Virgo Cluster holds literally thousands of galaxies, many of which are big, bright, and beautiful. NGC 4535 checks two of ...

Zoom into the James Webb Space Telescope's view of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud known as NGC 346.

The world's most powerful space telescope reveals 'overmassive' black holes and a smoking gun for a black hole merger, providing new insights into ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Deep-sky objects have some creative nicknames, but what’s up with the Deer Lick Group? In the 1980s, amateur astronomer Tom Lorenzin was observing in the mountains of North Carolina, at the Deerlick ...

The peculiar galaxy NGC 3256 dominates this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This Milky Way-sized galaxy lies about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Vela, and ...

The oxygen in a galaxy does not sit still. It spreads, thins out, piles up, and leaves behind a record of where stars formed, ...

Any amateur astronomer who has read about the universe or has an interest in observing deep-sky objects has encountered the letters NGC. They stand for New General Catalogue. The complete title is New ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...