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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope encounters millions of star-forming regions blazing in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Natural Landscape Photography Awards honours photographers who 'value realism and authenticity in their work'. U.S photographer Brent Clark takes the top prize...

Sometimes it's tempting to imagine a supernatural hand behind the arrangement of celestial bodies.

Harlow Shapley, (born November 2, 1885, Nashville, Missouri, U.S.—died October 20, 1972, Boulder, Colorado), American astronomer who deduced that the Sun lies near the central plane of the Milky Way Galaxy and was not at the centre but some 30,000 light-years away. In 1911 Shapley, working with results given by Henry Norris Russell, began finding the dimensions of stars in a number of binary systems from measurements of their light variation when they eclipse one another. These methods remained the standard procedure for more than 30 years. Shapley also showed that Cepheid variables cannot ...

Coronas have been previously observed around distant dwarf galaxies, but this recent discovery is the most detailed probe astronomers ever performed