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"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captures the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).
Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...
A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...
The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.
Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...
NGC 4449 is a dwarf galaxy turned stellar powerhouse, dazzling astronomers with its explosive star-forming activity and rich cosmic detail unveiled by Hubble and Webb.
The other half got sped up in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is the closest galaxy to our own. (Han notes that while many people think of Andromeda as the closest galaxy, it's ...
This other recent Hubble image also shows a dwarf galaxy, one called NGC 5238. This one is located 14.5 million light-years away, but has a different and more complex type of structure.
The dwarf galaxy, known as Leo P and about 5.3 million light-years from Earth, is offering new insights into galaxy evolution and the factors necessary to keep galaxies growing and churning out ...
Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...