The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- The image from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite of Magellanic Clouds and an interstellar filament bear an uncanny resemblance to a post-impressionist Vincent Van ...

The “Small Magellanic Cloud,” a fascinating, long cloud of stars in the southern hemisphere skies. Its appearance to the naked eye is striking, and with its counterpart – the “Large Magellanic Cloud” ...

A new photo shows what's usually hidden within a galaxy not too far from home. The image, created by mapping the atomic hydrogen gas within the Small Magellanic Cloud, may look like an explosion, but ...

A coalition of astronomers is pushing to rename the Milky Way’s closest neighboring galaxies, arguing that the Portuguese explorer they are named after was a “murderer” who had nothing to do with ...

This week’s naked-eye object is the Large Magellanic Cloud in Dorado. Southern Hemisphere observers definitely enjoy the sky’s better half. Below the celestial equator lie the brightest stars, the ...

Astronomers have combined hundreds of thousands of Spitzer Space Telescope images into a map of the whole Large Magellanic Cloud. They see features throughout the galaxy in such sharp detail that they ...

Cosmic rays are tiny charged particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light through some of the most violent events in the universe. By themselves they're not too awful, but in big enough numbers ...

This is the famous Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It is one of the most prominent satellite galaxies to the Milky Way and can be found about 163,000 light-years from the place we call home. Technically ...

Antuan started out in the automotive industry the old-fashioned way, by turning wrenches in a driveway and picking up speeding tickets. He now has nearly 20 years of expertise and experience behind ...