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Galaxy season is upon us - the time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere when Earth's nightside faces out of the plane of the Milky Way towards constellations like Leo, Virgo, Coma Berenices, and ...
May’s night skies turn the skywatcher’s gaze away from the dazzling brilliance of the Milky Way and toward grand walls, chains, fields and groups of galaxies in the great beyond. May marks the heart ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a delicate dance of celestial bodies in a new image of a distant galaxy that's on a course toward the center of a large cluster of other galaxies. The photograph ...
The spiral galaxy Messier 88 is losing its cold gas reserves as it journeys towards the dense core of the Virgo Cluster. This environmental interaction is compressing its leading edge, and will ...
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster called CL0016+1609, or MACS J0018.5+1626, that is very bright at X-ray wavelengths and is one of the most extensively studied clusters ...