An overview of the unique characteristics of the four prominent telescopes Hubble, James Webb, Euclid and Vera C. Rubin, which observe the universe from different perspectives. The article also ...

On June 23, the first images from the much-anticipated Vera C. Rubin Observatory atop Chile’s Cerro Pachón will be shown to ...

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The Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is similar in size, mass, and shape to our own spiral Milky Way. ESO researcher Enrico Congiu said ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

A large, rotating protoplanetary disk of dust and gas surrounds the young star, which is 431 light-years away from us.

Located 1.1 million light years from Earth, the vast Sculptor Galaxy contains around 500 nebulae, or star-forming regions ...

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

Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...

Galaxies are incredibly complex systems that we are still struggling to understand,” observed Enrico Congiu of the European ...

Sculptor — officially labeled NGC 253 — is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It’s located 11 ...