Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

By capturing detailed, long-exposure images of space features like pulsing, Cepheid variable stars, Hubble confirmed the true nature of the Andromeda Nebula and others. These weren’t just nearby ...

Tromso sits at the centre of the northern lights’ oval, meaning that the lights can be visible even when activity is low.

For the best chance of watching the spectacular northern lights, many head to areas around the Arctic, such as Norway, ...

In January 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, a colleague presented a paper on his behalf that made a groundbreaking claim: the Andromeda Nebula (M31 ... The telescope’s size let ...

The nebula features striking orange waves of hot gas encircling a glowing pinkish center, resembling the curved legs of a black widow spider. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured spectacular images ...

This montage of images taken by the Voyager spacecraft of the planets and four of Jupiter’s moons is set against a false-color picture of the Rosette Nebula with Earth’s ... enable scientists to ...

Show them lots of pictures of the Earth from space and of our solar system ... Along with the topic of astronomy, you can teach the scientific method. Children can learn to make a hypothesis, decide ...