It's not easy to capture stunning space views. At least, that was the case for photographer and NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador Petr Horálek. Using a commercial camera and a wide-aperture telephoto ...

A coalition of astronomers is pushing to rename the Milky Way’s closest neighboring galaxies, arguing that the Portuguese explorer they are named after was a “murderer” who had nothing to do with ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after ...

Why it's so special: If you need an excuse to visit the Southern Hemisphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has just provided one. This spectacular new image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, ...

Astronomers have combined hundreds of thousands of Spitzer Space Telescope images into a map of the whole Large Magellanic Cloud. They see features throughout the galaxy in such sharp detail that they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently peered into one-third of a unique nebula. The revolutionary telescope studies the cosmos in the infrared, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

The star, named WOH G64, is 1500 times larger than the Sun.

Astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) have created the most detailed radio image of nearby dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, revealing secrets of how it formed and how it is ...