Declination: +41° 16′ 9″ M31 or the Andromeda Galaxy is the brightest galaxy in the northern hemisphere and can be seen with the naked eye on clear, dark nights away from city and town lights. Binoculars will show its bright central core as a fuzzy patch of light and a medium sized telescope will start to show some structure in the spiral ...

Feb 8, 2019 · As Andromeda’s motion differs somewhat from previous estimates, the galaxy is likely to deliver more of a glancing blow to the Milky Way than a head-on collision.

Apart from Andromeda, are any other galaxies moving towards us? Is our Milky Way destined to collide with any other galaxies?

Delve deep into the mysteries of the universe and let this book take you on a journey from the start of the universe at the Big Bang to furthest reaches of the universe observable to man. Somewhere between theory and mystery, learn about all the near-magical bodies of the universe, covering supermassive black holes, neutron stars, hypernovas, wormholes and nebulas. Discover all the mysteries ...

New image release: Hubble’s weird perspective of a spiral galaxy Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a structure like our Milky Way

Jan 31, 2017 · NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes

New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC 4696 in greater detail than ever before. The elliptical galaxy is a beautiful cosmic oddity with a bright core wrapped in system of dark, swirling, thread-like filaments.

Astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory have discovered a previously unknown component of our galaxy

5 – Mizar and Alcor The widest of the naked-eye double stars. Through the field of view, the stellar duo twinkle as a pair of white-blue jewels, where Alcor is the faintest of the pairing at a magnitude of 4. 6 – Sunflower Galaxy (Messier 63) One of the prettiest spiral galaxies in the night sky. A large telescope with medium power shows it ...

Black hole’s 300,000 light-year blast captured by space telescope A giant jet spanning continuously for many light years is seen racing out of the galaxy Pictor A Load more posts...