Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

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 ...

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 ...

a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. NGC 460 is surrounded by a number of other young stellar clusters and varying sized nebulae, which are clouds of gas and dust that fuel new star formation.

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.