NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with ...

Messier 90 is one of the few galaxies moving closer to us. Credit: ESA/HUBBLE & NASA, W. SARGENT ET AL. Most galaxies are traveling away from our galaxy, not closer to it. Still, there are exceptions.

Andre van der Hoeven (Netherlands) combined different datasets in the archives of the Hubble Space Telescope to create this ...

One of the great places to look for dwarf galaxies is the halo of the Andromeda galaxy (also known as Messier 31, or M31 for short), due to its relative proximity. UNIONS is so far the deepest ...

The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog of fuzzy things in the sky). Also in the Local Group are a couple dozen dwarf galaxies.

Sgr A*, in turn, is dwarfed by some supermassive black holes detected in other large galaxies such as one with a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of the sun in a galaxy called Messier 87.

The latest achievement was the team’s second since April 2019, when it released the first image of a black hole from the Messier 87 galaxy, which is about 55 million light years from Earth.

Messier 57, better known as the Ring Nebula, is the glowing remains of a sun-like star. It is 2,000 light-years away from the Earth. This stunning image of Ring Nebula was captured by James Webb ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern ...