NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a new view of two companion galaxies — a somewhat tranquil spiral beauty and its rambunctious partner blazing with smoky star formation. The ...

This is M81 (also known as Messier 81, or Bode’s Galaxy). It can be found approximately 12 million light-years away from Earth, toward the constellation of Ursa Major. It should go without saying (it ...

In what has to be one of the most stunning images ever taken of any galaxy, ever, we come across Messier 81 (also known as Bode's Galaxy), which lurks about 12 million light-years from Earth in the ...

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up! Charles Messier was a French astronomer in the ...

Two companion galaxies couldn't look more different from one another, a new photo from NASA's WISE telescope reveals. Though both are spiral galaxies, one beams a bright yellow light from the host of ...

They are among the great mysteries of the universe: bursts of radiation that last about a thousandth of a second and only appear in radio telescopes. Since their discovery in 2007, astronomers have ...

The beautiful galaxy Messier 81 is tilted at an oblique angle on to our line of sight, giving a "birds-eye view" of the spiral structure. The galaxy is similar to our Milky Way, but our favourable ...

One of the commonest activities of amateur astronomers is observing the 110 deep sky objects originally catalogued by Charles Messier in the 18th century. Messier was one of the first astronomers to ...

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a new view of two companion galaxies -- a somewhat tranquil spiral beauty and its rambunctious partner blazing with smoky star formation. NASA's ...