AN amateur astronomer has painstakingly stitched together 110 shots of the night sky to make these incredibly detailed panoramas of the Milky Way. Samir Samirovich, from the city of Syzran in south… ...

One of the largest galaxy clusters ever seen shines bright in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Called RX J1347.5-1145, this cluster lies 5 billion light-years from Earth.

This Hubble image is composed of two different exposures which have been merged together, showing star BD+17 2217 shining over the background galaxy Arp 263. Skip to main content.

When a gravitational lens magnifies a background galaxy, ... Take, for example, the beautiful image of the galaxy cluster Abell 1689 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.