Hubble captured a breathtaking view of NGC 6000, a spiral galaxy where blue newborn stars shine beside golden, aging ones.

It was spotted in the spiral galaxy NGC 3627, around 31 million light-years from our solar system in the constellation Leo.

Check out Astronomy.com’s interactive StarDome to see an accurate map of your sky. This tool will help you locate this week’s targets. After you listen to the podcast and try to find the objects, be ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have conducted deep observations of a massive galaxy known as NGC 5746. As a result, they detected a hot gaseous outflow in the galaxy. The new findings, ...

Although this spiral galaxy appears unremarkable from afar, NGC 7456 is bursting with newborn stars and glowing gas, ...

Hubble’s latest image captures the dazzling spiral galaxy NGC 6000, lying 102 million light-years away in Scorpius. Its golden core and bright blue arms reveal a striking contrast between old, cool ...

This week’s naked-eye object is Regulus (Alpha [α] Leonis), Leo the Lion’s brightest star. It’s easy to find in February low in the east after sunset. But a closer look will show you that Regulus is ...

The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The tenuous disc of the galaxy is threaded through with ...

Hubble has just dropped more galactic eye candy! From its vantage point in low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an intricate portrait of the NGC 3430 galaxy, a classic spiral ...

Lying some 85 million light years away, tucked deep within the Ursa Major constellation, lies the galaxy NGC 2814. Unlike the eye-catching, spiral-shaped family of galaxies (of which the Milky Way is ...