Round-ish with a bonus This week’s first large-scope object is elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, which lies in the sky’s largest constellation, Hydra the Water Snake. It shines at magnitude 10.8 and ...

The moshing galaxies of Arp 105 dazzle in the Space Image of the Day Monday (March 10), which comes courtesy of Hubble.

Caption NGC 1052-DF2 resides about 65 million light-years away in the NGC 1052 Group, which is dominated by a massive elliptical galaxy called NGC 1052. This large, fuzzy-looking galaxy is so ...

One such revelation arrived in the form of an astonishing discovery around the elliptical galaxy NGC 6505 – a complete Einstein ring, captured by the keen eyes of the Euclid space telescope.

More information: Lin He et al, Probing the Hot Gaseous Halo of the Low-mass Disk Galaxy NGC 7793 with eROSITA and Chandra, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.10087 Journal information: arXiv ...

The Serpens Nebula is a prime location for studying the formation of stars and planets. It is approximately 1,300 light-years from Earth.

The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, which lies 28.7 million light-years from the earth. NGC 6827 is a Seyfert 1 galaxy located in the ...

DF2 (NGC 1052-DF2: A mysterious ultra-diffuse galaxy with little to no dark matter. About 65 million light-years away in the Cetus constellation. ESO 383-76: A supergiant elliptical galaxy.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of black holes, revealing their energy and interactions with surroundings. These images sho ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor. The image reveals NGC 3430 as a ...