Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Now here is the real trick. In order for the Milky Way to be sharp in the picture, the exposure can’t be any longer than about 90 seconds. (And that’s with a very wide 14mm lens.) Any longer ...

it has released a stunning new image taken of a section of the Milky Way. Hubble has taken photos of NGC 346 before - a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. But the new image includes ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

a picture of the star did not yet exist. NASA'S WEBB TELESCOPE SHOWS OFF 19 NEARBY SPIRAL GALAXIES According to scientists, about 24 zoomed-in images of stars in the Milky Way have been taken ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the narrator taking us both outward toward the fathomless end of the Universe ...

Related: New view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way hints at an exciting hidden ... standing still while we are taking its photo over the course of a night," Bouman ...

These shots of the Milky Way were taken by 25-year-old photographer Stephen Bank over the past month They include some of the county's most iconic locations such as the renowned beauty spot Durdle ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Newly-processed image of Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster shows that this old space telescope can still impress with its pictures ...