A new phototaken by a NASA space telescope has revealed the brilliant southern Pinwheel Galaxyin a new light, though it?s a cosmic half-pint when compared to our own MilkyWay. The new infraredgalaxy ...

Stargazers, rejoice: There's a new supernova in the night sky. Though not visible with the naked eye, the supernova is bright enough to see through a small telescope, according to Sky and Telescope ...

This new Hubble image reveals the gigantic Pinwheel galaxy, one of the best known examples of “grand design spirals”, and its supergiant star-forming regions in unprecedented detail. The image is the ...

In the colossal Pinwheel galaxy, 25 million light-years away, a star has just exploded and is even visible through small telescopes. The supernova-hunting astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered the ...

This week on Looking Up we get face to face with M83, a beautiful galaxy , also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. If you have a clear view to the south, you may just be able to catch a glimpse of ...

The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The fluffy-looking galaxy, officially named Messier 101, is dominated by a mishmash of spiral ...

Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a new light in the night sky, thanks to a supernova explosion in the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy. While the burst of light is brighter than just about anything ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured two views of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, revealing that galaxies — like ogres and onions — have layers. So much is invisible to us because our eyes can ...

Equipped with an arsenal of telescopes and cameras, a French skywatching enthusiast had to venture beyond his suburban home in the so-called City of Lights to capture a brilliant deep night sky image ...

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured a beautifully detailed image of galaxy Messier 33 (M33). This nearby spiral, the ...

Dave Eicher, Editor Emeritus for *Astronomy* magazine, encourages evening skygazers to observe the Pinwheel Galaxy. The Pinwheel Galaxy is also known by its alternative designation, the Triangulum ...

The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The fluffy-looking galaxy, officially named Messier 101, is dominated by a mishmash of spiral ...