Astronomy TOP STORY
This planetary nebula is called PK 329-02.2 and is located in the constellation of Norma in the southern sky.
Astronomy TOP STORIES
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered never-before-seen moving features within the dusty disk surrounding the young, nearby star AU Microscopii (AU Mic).
Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In October spot Andromeda, our galactic neighbor.
How small can a droplet shrink and remain a liquid?
Galaxy clusters are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerations of galaxies, hot gas, and dark matter and represent the largest structures in the Universe held together by gravity.
European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes are being used to search for the subtle signs of magnetic fields in other stars and even to map out the star spots on their surfaces.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago.
Around 37,000 citizen scientists combed through 430,000 images to help an international team of researchers to discover 29 new gravitational lens candidates through Space Warps, an online classification system which guides citizen scientists to become lens hunters.
Three orbiting X-ray space telescopes have detected an increased rate of X-ray flares from the usually quiet giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy after new long-term monitoring.
This new image of the rose-coloured star forming region Messier 17 was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is a mysterious place. Not only is it thousands of light-years away, it's also cloaked in so much dust that most stars within are rendered invisible.
Entangled by gravity and destined to merge, two candidate black holes in a distant galaxy appear to be locked in an intricate dance.
It is known today that merging galaxies play a large role in the evolution of galaxies and the formation of elliptical galaxies in particular.
If only calculating the distance between Earth and far-off galaxies was as easy as pulling out the old measuring tape. Now UBC researchers are proposing a new way to calculate distances in the cosmos using mysterious bursts of energy.
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy is pictured in this new image from the Wide Field Imager camera.
ESA's Earth-orbiting Proba-2 satellite observed three partial solar eclipses on the morning of 13 September 2015 along with an additional passage of the Moon close to the edge of the Sun.
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower. So the nickname for this cosmic object the Sunflower Galaxy is no coincidence.
Astronomers have discovered a rare beast of a galaxy cluster whose heart is bursting with new stars.