Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope depict various nebulae and star clusters, like the Butterfly Nebula and NGC 4826.

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer had just one hour to capture this iconic image of Comet 13P/Olbers and the Black Eye Galaxy (M64 ...

anyone who can see it from the northern hemisphere. It's in the constellation of Coma Berenices. The feathery spiral arms of the "flocculent" galaxy NGC 2775, 67 million light-years distant in the ...

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Saturday, August 24 Comet 13P/Olbers, now roughly 8th magnitude, is making its way through Coma Berenices, which lies to the lower left of Canes Venatici, the ...

In a hypothetical intergalactic journey we could not recognize any constellation the mapping of the celestial sphere is nothing but a vice of the gaze The proximity close to any star we would ...

The spectacular image captures the stunning visual of the Messier 100 galaxy, located in the constellation Coma Berenices. The image is captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. One of the ...

Eye in the Sky This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 4826 — a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). This ...

What is the universe made of? How did it begin? How has it evolved over the 13.8 billion years since its origin? These are some of the questions addressed by cosmology, the study of the universe as a ...

You’ll want a 4-inch scope to spy its soft 9th-magnitude glow. Start at magnitude 4.3 Alpha (α) Comae Berenices, shift north 1° to hit the bright globular star cluster M53, then east another ...

NASA has unveiled remarkable images of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. These ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 115, No. 808 (June 2003), pp. 748-754 (7 pages) ABSTRACT From the present times of minimum light and those collected from the literature, ...

In space, the lack of air to scatter sunlight results in a black sky studded with stars. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provides photographs to help the public understand ...