The Sun is about half-way from the centre of the galaxy, on one of the arms. The distances between objects in space are huge: the distance from one star to another in a galaxy is millions of times ...

preventing the star from collapsing. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases the spiral galaxy IC 4709, situated approximately 240 million light-years away in the southern ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait ... they appear to block the collective glow of the stars that make up the galaxy itself.

Fermi Bubbles: NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope captured these twin ... superheated gas and magnetic fields at the heart of our galaxy. NGC 4826: Also called the "Black Eye Galaxy," this ...

Credit: NASA Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe was only half as old as it is now. Astronomers using the James ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ... capabilities can resolve more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting only stars brighter than our sun.

making objects in space seem closer than they appear. Because of this, the scientists behind the study were able to get a look at 44 stars in the "Dragon Arc," a part of the Abell 370 galaxy ...

The proof was therefore provided by two images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The fact that individual stars can be detected at all in galaxies billions of light years away is a fairly ...

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space Telescope ... producing stars when many other small galaxies didn't.