A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases detailed dusty clouds in the Tarantula Nebula, a massive ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a scene on the nebula's fringes where the super star cluster R136 resides. Near R136 ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

A dwarf irregular galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the most stunning deep-sky treasures of the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the unaided eye as a soft glow ...

The spiral galaxy M83 is captured face-on, providing a clear view of its full structure. Chandra's X-ray data reveals remnants from widespread stellar explosions, or supernovas, while ground-based ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Astronomers have made the most detailed map of the star formation history of the Large Magellanic Cloud to date. This history of one ...

Stars from the Large Magellanic Cloud would ricochet like pinballs, dislodging some of the Milky Way’s stars from their orbits. Our galaxy as a whole would survive, but some stars may be flung ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is what Austin Powers might call a quasi galaxy, just one percent the Milky Way's size and orbiting it like a hanger-on. At a distance of 163,000 light-years from Earth ...