A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams ...

Astronomers issued some extremely detailed and beautiful images of distant galaxies. The images offer detail not seen in images of these galaxies in the past. While the images are certainly beautiful ...

The most powerful digital camera ever built has released its first pictures of the universe. Beautiful galaxies shine in the images that show a vast picture of colourful nebulae and stars. They come ...

To the north lies two beautiful galaxies locked in a gravitational embrace. Dancing together, one is at an oblique angle to us while the other one is edge-on. An earlier encounter between the two has ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer back in time over 10 billion years, observing an early era in cosmic history. In doing so, the team from the University of Kansas ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured many dreamy images of two merging galaxies in the VV-689 system. Also called the "Angel Wing," the stunning photo shows the galaxies symmetrically aligned as they ...

A new iBook by Dr. Stephen Perrenod looks at 72 Beautiful Galaxies. With a Foreword written by our own Rich Brueckner from insideHPC, the iPad “book” offers an interactive way to explore the universe.

Images of beautiful galaxies, and in particular of spiral brethren of our own Milky Way, leaves no-one unmoved. It is difficult indeed to resist the charm of these impressive grand structures.

When astronomer Charles Messier was chasing comets with his telescope in the late 1700s, he kept bumping into nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters that confounded the hunt—so he started keeping a list ...