A mesmerizing new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the hazy glow of a distant galaxy. In the recent photo of NGC 3156, faint concentric ovals appear progressively brighter towards the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an image snapped by the famous Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing the galaxy officially called NGC 3156. The space agency explains that NGC 3156 is a ...

Among my mother’s possessions when she died was a wooden box, a box exactly the size of the one in which we buried her ashes. It had a sticky latch, a latch that seemed to tell us no, not yet, there ...

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IT is difficult to decide what limits an author should set himself in writing a text-book on this subject. Gravitational astronomy on the one hand and descriptive and general astronomy on the other ...

It lives in a constellation named for an 18th century astronomical tool. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A mesmerizing new photo ...