Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black hole. The supergiant star M31 ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

The Milky Way should be visible the other side of Jupiter in the southern sky. However, it’s really important that you get to as dark as place as possible. The Milky Way galaxy rising in the sky ...

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Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...

For example, the delicate structure of a spiral galaxy in the cluster Abell 3381 ... but the telescope began regularly observing the sky in February. So far, the observatory has completed 12% ...

The nebula constitutes a clump of cloud in a larger complex known as Gum 55, a large region of glowing nebulosity in the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to start with.