Tag: Astronomy

Possible supernova remnant in galactic centre

Do you see that blue blob to the lower right of the image centre? Astronomers th...

Saturn at night

Telescopic views of Saturn and its beautiful rings often make it the star of sta...

Messier 104

A gorgeous spiral galaxy, Messier 104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile f...

NGC 1514: The Crystal ball nebula

What do you see in this crystal ball? The featured image shows NGC 1514, known a...

PK 164 +31.1: The Headphone Nebula

What is a pair of headphones doing in the sky? Today’s image features the Headph...

NGC 3660 and Burçin's Galaxy

The upper galaxy might be more photogenic, but the lower galaxy is more unusual.

Aurora slathers up the sky

Like salsa verde on your favorite burrito, a green aurora slathers up the sky in...

NGC 1300: Barred spiral galaxy

Across the center of this spiral galaxy is a bar. And at the center of this bar ...

NGC 2170: The Angel Nebula

Is this a painting or a photograph? In this celestial abstract art composed with...

NGC 188: Old cluster in the New General Catalogue

The New General Catalogue of star clusters and nebulae really isn't so new. In f...

James Webb telescope shows hellish, airless exoplanet 4...

Astronomers have gotten their clearest look yet at the surface of an exoplanet —...

Markarian's Chain

Near the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, a string of galaxies known as Markar...

St Andrews astronomers help make the most extensive map...

Researchers from the University of St Andrews have been involved in one of the m...

Mystic mountain monster being destroyed

Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying...

UGC 1810: Wildly interacting galaxy from Hubble

What's happening to this spiral galaxy?