How many Stars are there in Space?
Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of
Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of
In this Hubble Space Telescope image UGC 2885, Rubin’s Galaxy, a giant spiral galaxy about 232 million light-years distant, has about 10 times as many stars as
New ESO images reveal stunning features of nearby galaxies.
First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned.
No matter where you are, you are always moving. The Earth orbits the sun, and the sun moves round the galaxy. But what is it that makes
A camera designed to reveal the deepest secrets of our Universe captures the Southern Pinwheel galaxy in glorious detail. Watch the video…
Scientists used ‘Galaxy-sized’ observatory to see potential hints of gravitational waves.
Scientists using data from the Kepler space telescope, estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy.
This video zooms into a view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and ends on a new photo obtained by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam)…
The featured spiral galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partner is known as Arp 273.