The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first batch of images Monday (June 23), captivating the world with one of the most detailed snapshots of space ever taken. Using the world's ...

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This elliptical galaxy was discovered in March 1781 and lies about 60 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Looking Into The Heart of The Virgo Cluster. Virgo (The Virgin). The ...

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study exoplanets and the opportunity to refresh one’s perspectives.

Spring has sprung — and for lovers of deep-sky objects, that means it’s galaxy season. This is a time of the year when that pesky, band of glowing stars and shadowy dust that we call the Milky Way is ...

The inner regions of M90’s disk are sites of star formation, seen here in red H-alpha light from nebulae. M90 sits among the galaxies of the relatively nearby Virgo Cluster, and its orbit took M90 on ...

It’s easy to get swept up in the swirling starry arms of this intermediate spiral galaxy, NGC 4654, in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy has a bright center and is labeled “intermediate” because it ...

Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we've lacked a precise picture of what impact they have on their surroundings. However, a University of ...

Galaxy clusters are the heaviest structures in the universe, yet most of their mass is invisible, inferred only from the way it tugs on light and galaxies. Now a new class of “dead” stars, white ...