NASA and ESA release a Hubble image of NGC 7722 showing dust lanes, rings, and supernova follow-up observations in a lenticular galaxy.

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, Chinese astronomers have investigated the structure of a nearby open cluster ...

Any amateur astronomer who has read about the universe or has an interest in observing deep-sky objects has encountered the letters NGC. They stand for New General Catalogue. The complete title is New ...

Camelopardalis, the 18th-largest constellation, features NGC 2403 as its brightest galaxy (magnitude 8.9), observable with large binoculars under dark skies. NGC 2403 is an Scd spiral galaxy, ...

The peculiar galaxy NGC 3256 dominates this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This Milky Way-sized galaxy lies about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Vela, and ...

This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown here are ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunningly detailed view of the weakly barred spiral galaxy NGC 3344, which is located some 20 million light-years away in the direction of the "Lion Cub" ...

Figure 1: Spatial distribution of clusters in the HST/ACS field. Figure 2: The colour distribution of clusters in NGC 1277 compared with that of the composite cluster system. Figure 3: The fraction of ...