This week’s small-telescope target is the Heart and Dagger Cluster, also known as open cluster NGC 2546 in Puppis. You’ll find this object not quite 3° northeast of magnitude 2.3 Naos (Zeta [ζ] Puppis ...

In 1790, William Herschel discovered NGC 3079, a nearly edge-on barred spiral galaxy in Ursa Major about 50 million light-years away. Hubble images reveal its spiral disk is peppered with many HII ...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy, called NGC 3079, is blowing bubbles in space and acting as an extraordinary particle accelerator. These "superbubbles" are likely being blown by outbursts powered ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

On Earth, we are familiar with bubbles associated with soap or carbonated water. These bubbles consist of a thin film of liquid enclosing a volume of air or other gas that is only a few inches across.