NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way.
With a lining up of planets and distant galaxies visible to the naked eye, there is a lot to see in the skies in February.
"The Moon-based telescope studied a variety of star clusters as well as nebulae ... which is a small galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. It is called a 'Camera/Spectrograph' because it had two ...
Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...
The moon isn't merely a white sphere ... it'd look like a sort of smudge among the background stars. This galaxy is about 31 million light-years away from us and has been imaged time and again ...
Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...
It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our moon ... million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting ...
CfA's Sun found this treasure trove of stars while inspecting JWST images of a galaxy known as the Dragon Arc, located along the line of sight from Earth behind a massive cluster of galaxies ...
Also called M31—and our closest giant neighboring galaxy at just 2.5 million light years away—Andromeda is home to at least a trillion stars. Like the Milky Way, it’s a spiral galaxy ...