For this reason, Sculptor has been the primary target for many observations. In 2022, an international team of scientists observed Sculptor with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, MUSE, on the ...

Could an Egyptian coffin, dated 5,000 years ago, hold the answer to one of the night sky’s greatest mysteries? University of ...

The Pococo Galaxy Star Projector offers realistic imagery as a static or slowly rotating image. The fact that it's ...

But the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced “Noot”) had one of the most important roles. Nut literally stood over her earth god brother, Geb, protecting him from the void’s floodwaters. News ...

Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky and about 12 million light years distant. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Rolf Olsen; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Explore the UGC 10214, the Tadpole Galaxy, a faint, peculiar spiral galaxy in Draco with a dramatic tidal tail and active star formation — an elusive but rewarding target for deep-sky observers ...

His Galaxy Wolf Art Kept Getting Ripped Off. ... with one side the shade of the summer sky at dusk and the other pale blue, the kind of thing you’d see on a fantasy-loving goth kid’s T-shirt.

This galaxy glows meekly at magnitude 14.4 and spans a mere 3.6' by 0.8', so a dark sky and a telescope of 10- or 12-inches is normally required to spot it.

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced the galaxy, such as the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, and the Book of Nut.