While we still don’t know if we are truly the only intelligent life in the universe, we are certainly not alone as far as galaxies. There are an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies–dust clouds, ...

Some ten million light-years away from Earth sits a brilliant spiral galaxy officially called NGC 253 but known by many different names: Caldwell 65, Silver Dollar Galaxy, the Silver Coin. Most people ...

This handout provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). (ESO ...

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