NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way.

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

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It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our moon ... million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting ...

In this zoomed-in detail of the Hubble image of Abell 370, the host galaxy where the 44 stars were ... raising a pair of binoculars at the moon in hopes of making out individual grains ...

With a lining up of planets and distant galaxies visible to the naked eye, there is a lot to see in the skies in February.

NASA's powerful Webb Telescope has spotted more than 40 ancient stars in a distant galaxy, researchers said ... be like trying to look at dust on the moon, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ...

The first full moon of January 2025 ... "We see more stars in this direction because we are looking toward the Local Arm of our home galaxy (also called the Orion Arm, Orion-Cygnus Arm, or ...

New year, new milestone: A cosmic quirk of nature has allowed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to capture images of 44 individual stars in a galaxy halfway across the observable universe ...

NASA's powerful Webb Telescope has spotted more than 40 ancient stars in a distant galaxy, researchers said ... be like trying to look at dust on the moon, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ...