Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the cluster shows up nicely in this fine photo of it by EAAA member James Schultz.

NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

The discovery of Inkathazo is part of a larger effort to explore the southern sky, an area relatively unstudied for giant radio galaxies. It is the third GRG found in a small region, suggesting that ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has revealed a remarkable cosmic discovery—Inkathazo, a newly identified giant radio galaxy ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

According to NASA's SPHEREx mission details, the observatory will survey the entire sky using near-infrared light. Its goals include exploring how galaxies evolved, understanding the structure of the ...

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...