NGC 520 is a bright and highly distorted galaxy in the constellation Pisces, discovered by William Herschel in 1784.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the early morning hours of May 22 and ...

R Leonis, a variable star in Leo, is currently below naked-eye magnitude, but you can easily find it with binoculars or a ...

Our solar system’s largest planet stands just north of Zeta Tau, the tip of one of Taurus the Bull’s two horns.

Visible for some five hours after sunset is Mars, making its way through Cancer. Shining at 1st magnitude, this ruddy point ...

Calling this object a “nebula” is a bit of a misnomer, but galaxy IC 2574 does feature impressively large star-forming regions.

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

The Coma Cluster is a rich group of galaxies visible in Coma Berenices, high in the southern sky late this evening.

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) with 2006 data from Japan’s AKARI mission in ...

The ephemeral remnants left behind by exploding stars are some of the most extraordinary objects visible to astronomers here ...

Sophisticated computational models let us examine objects such as supernova remnants in extraordinary detail and from every ...