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The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

A strophotographer Ronald Brecher captured a striking image of the Knife Edge Galaxy (NGC 5907) during May under a near-full moon from his backyard observatory near the city of Guelph in Canada.

A program called Every Known Nearby Galaxy is using Hubble to observe every galaxy located within 10 megaparsecs of Earth that has not yet been imaged.

This image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, shows the beautiful nebula NGC 6164/6165, also known as the Dragon’s Egg.

That bright, blue showstopper at the top of the image isn't actually part of NGC 6380. ... Our blue friend, a star dubbed HD 159073, is much closer at only (lol) 4,000 light-years away.

This full image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of star-forming region NGC 604 shows how stellar winds from bright, hot, young stars carve out cavities in ...

A new image of galaxy NGC 7727 reveals long dusty arms left behind from a galactic merger and a glowing center that hosts two black holes.

NGC 2814, along with another irregular galaxy (IC 2458) and a spiral galaxy (NGC 2820), form a trio located roughly 230,000 light years away from the very large galaxy NGC 2805.

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy has captured this haunting infrared image of two nebulas, NGC 3603 and NGC 3576.

Leist deconvolved simulated and observed images of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), a region at the center of the galaxy NGC 5728. The central engine of an active galactic nucleus, comprised of a hot ...