with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth. Our solar system takes about 240 million years to orbit the Milky Way just once. This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC ...

Peering deep into the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy using infrared vision, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. The Milky Way Galaxy ...

It’s a barred spiral galaxy, which means it has a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars, with spiral arms extending outwards. NASA has captured detailed pictured of the Milky Way using ...

The Pinwheel Galaxy lies 21 million light-years away in the Ursa Major constellation. The Antennae Galaxies are rich in black holes and neutron stars, driving rapid star formation and evolution.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

Large Magellanic Cloud: This vibrant image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. The Large Magellanic Cloud ...

In its 34 years orbiting the Earth, NASA ... galaxies within the universe. One, however, stands stars and nebulae above the rest. The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly ...