One of the mantras of amateur astronomy is ‘‘aperture rules.’’ This means you’ll see more detail as you observe through ever-larger telescopes. Few celestial objects demonstrate this better than ...

Analysis of Stephan’s Quintet, a vivid set of galaxies in the distant universe, by two telescopes has revealed details of how the galaxies (and the hydrogen gas within them) interact. One of the ...

Experts created two new visual and auditory experiences to explore the complexity and beauty of a compact galaxy group known as Stephan's Quintet. The guided three-dimensional visualization surveys ...

A party-crashing spiral galaxy is plowing headlong into Stephen’s Quintet at nearly 3 million kilometers per hour, causing a shock wave the size of the Milky Way. As that shock wave blasts through the ...

One of the first targets observed by the James Webb Space Telescope when it began science operations last year was Stephan’s Quintet, a group of five galaxies locked close together in a complex ...

Space telescope imagery of R Aquarii, Stephan's Quintet and Messier 104 have been sonified in a collaboration between NASA ...

Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan's Quintet are helping astronomers to understand how turbulence influences gas in the intergalactic medium. New ...

Each sonification is accompanied with a visual aide, featuring a cursor moving over each of the telescope images. The first is a composite image of the two-star system R Aquarii, which consists of a ...

Stephan's Quintet includes four distant galaxies that are connected through gravity and one galaxy that is much closer to us but just happens to lie in the same direction in the sky. Public domain via ...

Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan’s Quintet are helping astronomers to understand how turbulence influences gas in the intergalactic medium. New ...

Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan's Quintet are helping astronomers to understand how turbulence influences gas in the intergalactic medium. New ...