A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530, located 40 million light-years from Earth. However, this picturesque scene is not without a surprise.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Astronomers have examined the hot gaseous halo of the spiral galaxy NGC 7793 using data from Spektr-RG and Chandra observatories. They identified extraplanar X ...

This week’s small-telescope target is globular cluster NGC 2808 in the southern constellation Carina the Keel. It shines at magnitude 6.2 and has a diameter of 13.8′. That means it covers 20 ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530, located 40 million light-years from Earth. However, this picturesque scene is not without a surprise. A ...