The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

The galactic masterpiece combines over 100 exposures to reveal previously unseen features of stars in formation.

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

Scientists have discovered that something is making cosmic distance markers appear much farther away than they should be.

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial ...

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the ...

Beyond our galactic neighborhood, we usually deal with fewer than 100 detections per galaxy,” explains Fabian Scheuermann of ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

A stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, located 11 million light-years away, painted in thousands of colors by the VLT, ...

"The Sculptor Galaxy is in a sweet spot. It is close enough that we can resolve its internal structure, but at the same time big enough that we can still see it as a whole system." ...