Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

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The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Physics Professor Colin Hill and collaborators have released the clearest images to-date of the universe in its infancy.

Auroras occur when solar flares interact with the magnetic field of a planet. They have been detected on Jupiter, Saturn, and ...

NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward ...

The next partial eclipse will happen in the early hours of March 29, with it being visible mostly in the northeast starting ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...

Neptune often looks slightly different in observations, as it has dark spots which appear periodically. But it can also be bright at times, as the observations of auroras there show: In the image ...

The James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have captured Neptune’s auroras for the first time, revealing the planet’s ...