Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

another spiral galaxy that has a similar name due to its similar shape, but which is located in a different area of the sky — 110 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major.

The dazzling spiral galaxy in this Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, located about 60 million light-years away in the ...

Caption M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy, lies 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Fermi’s LAT and the ground-based VERITAS observatory have detected diffuse gamma ...

The galaxy is located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (which also includes the ... unveils a spectacular view of the neighbouring spiral galaxy Andromeda, also known as M31, in ...

Ursa Minor and Ursa Major are home to two galaxies that look stunning in an 8-inch telescope. M81 (Bode’s galaxy) is a large spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years from Earth and is one of ...

This week’s naked-eye object is the constellation Canis Major ... target is the Dusty Hand Galaxy. Astronomers refer to this object as NGC 2146, and this barred spiral galaxy lies in the ...

Kenough, one of the brightest galaxies, shines 11.6 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The Black ... a majestic spiral galaxy 27 million light-years away, is ...