A magnitude 10.2 star lies a bit more than 2″ east of the nebula. A big neighbor This week’s second large-telescope target is barred spiral galaxy NGC 3109 in the constellation Hydra the Water ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284 ... Located 15,000 light-years from Earth, at the end of an outer spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy, Sh2-284 lacks elements heavier than hydrogen and ...

Hubble had already used this knowledge in his 1924 discovery that the Andromeda nebula, containing a variable star, was more than 900,000 light years from Earth -- way beyond our own galaxy -- a ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of ... Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have ...

The early 20th century left astronomers grappling with the mystery of spiral nebulae. Were they part of the Milky Way or entire galaxies on their own? Edwin Hubble set out to answer this cosmic ...

With glowing nebulae that are filled with color ... NGC 4535, or the "Lost Galaxy," is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 50 million light-years distant in the Virgo constellation.

This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Known as NGC 4536, the galaxy boasts sweeping spiral arms speckled with bright blue ...