Mars starts May not far from the Beehive star cluster, Venus is unmistakable in the predawn sky, and Mercury looks best early ...

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study ...

Clusters of galaxies ... The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog of fuzzy things in the sky). Also in the Local Group ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare kind of galaxy that seems to be missing one of the universe’s most important ingredients: ...

The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83) in Hydra checks almost every box an amateur astronomer could desire. This stunning barred spiral spans a hefty 14′ and, at magnitude 7.5, ranks among the sky ...

Second on the list is the open cluster Hyades and the neighboring ... on a ship to South Africa to view the southern sky, ...

Two of them, the Magellanic Clouds, can be seen with the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere ... the groups typically belong to large galaxy clusters, sometimes containing thousands ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called ...

Astronomers observing a mysterious radio halo from the galaxy cluster Abell 1213 have uncovered ... By utilizing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and X-ray data from the XMM-Newton ...