When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a stunning ...
A new image from the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile shows a vast collection of stars, the globular cluster Messier 54. This cluster looks very similar to many ...
The distinctive spiral of the Messier 66 (M66) galaxy radiates golden and purple gas in this striking new image, released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). ESO's Multi-Unit Spectroscopic ...
Messier 90, a beautiful spiral galaxy located roughly 60 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). The black boxes in the top left are the result of the ...
The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 has swallowed an entire medium-sized galaxy over the last billion years. For the first time a team of astronomers has been able to track the motions of 300 ...
Astronomers have found signs of a planet orbiting a star outside our galaxy, the Milky Way, for the first time. The team found evidence of a possible planet in the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), ...
On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the "whirlpool galaxy," also known as Messier 51, or M51. Charles Messier was scanning the sky for objects that could confuse ...
Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, and the galaxies most pleasing to the eye are always in the most recognizable shapes. Dramatic spirals with outstretched arms, bursting with newborn stars are ...
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows off a nearby galaxy called Messier 106 — a spiral galaxy that is particularly bright. At just 23 million light-years away (that’s relatively close ...
The beautiful galaxy Messier 81 is tilted at an oblique angle on to our line of sight, giving a "birds-eye view" of the spiral structure. The galaxy is similar to our Milky Way, but our favourable ...
A brand new image snapped by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals the intricate details of the core of the distant "Sombrero Galaxy." This galaxy, officially known as Messier 104 (M104), ...
NASA released a stunning image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Messier 94 galaxy. It's about 16 million light-years from Earth. The European Space Agency says new stars are quickly ...
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