Messier, Méchain, and other astronomers of their time mistook the Squid Galaxy for either a spiral nebula or a star cluster. This mischaracterization isn't surprising. More than a century would ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The existence of a solitary black hole, unaccompanied by a companion star, has been confirmed through analysis of Hubble and Gaia data. The object, with a mass ...

Uranus will be high in the southwest, north of the Hyades star cluster and the bright orange star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus. At magnitude 5.6, this greenish world will be barely ...

Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) just released a stunning image of the NGC 346 star cluster from the Hubble Space Telescope — but it ...

Also known as M16, this nebula lies some 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens the Serpent and surrounds an open star cluster. This pillar of cold gas and dust stretches 9.5 ...

Far to its lower right is the Pleiades star cluster (M45), an easy naked-eye object, particularly with no moonlight to interfere. Below the Pleiades is Uranus. At magnitude 5.8, it is an easy ...

In the coming days ahead, if any of your friends or relatives remark to you that they saw a "strange UFO" on the way to work or school, you now can set them straight. Early morning risers who head ...

A young star cluster known as NGC 602 is seen through the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope [Courtesy of NASA] The scientists published their findings in the peer-reviewed Astrophysical ...

A team of astronomers made worldwide headlines last night with claims that they had found the “strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the Solar System”. The scientists say that a ...