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Edwin Hubble devised the scheme that astronomers use to classify galaxies outside the Milky Way galaxy.

Hubble's exceptional view of one of the galaxies in the Coma Cluster reveals the details in the spiral and its environs.

Locating the spring cluster of galaxies in Coma Berenices.

Galaxies like our Milky Way are large groups of stars containing from a few million to about a trillion stars. Galaxies also group together in clusters of galaxies.

The constellation of the Sea Serpent is home to a beautiful galaxy that closely resembles our own.

The recognizable shape of the constellation Leo the Lion makes it a great target for stargazers and its many galaxies make it attractive for observers using telescopes.

The Constellation known as the Big Bear holds double stars, galaxies, and a planetary nebula. You can also use it as a guide to star hop across the sky.

The constellation Camelopardalis is an obscure grouping of faint stars that lies above the horizon every night for observers in the Northern Hemisphere.

Mythology and observing spots for the tiny constellation Aries the Ram.

An unremarkable constellation holds surprise delights, including bright galaxies and one of the best globular clusters in the sky.

Sacred geometry is a universal blueprint of coherence between geometry and matter discovered by the ancients and codified into a form of sacred wisdom.

The fall constellation of Cetus the Whale contains a "wonderful" star known as Mira.

This dark patch of sky resides under Leo and contains one notable galaxy.

Scientists have spied a new object that fills the gap between super-massive and stellar class black holes.

Antlia the Air Pump and Pyxis the Compass are Southern Hemisphere constellations that are home to dim, deep-sky objects.

This Zodiac constellation has few bright stars but one beautiful galaxy.

Stars cluster together in groups ranging from binary star systems to galactic and globular clusters of stars and at larger scales galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

What happens when galaxies collide? The result is often galactic-sized fireworks and strange and beautiful new shapes.

The biggest of all 88 constellations wraps along the Milky Way low in the spring sky and contains three Messier objects.

Locate Leo Minor the Little Lion and learn about its stars and deep-sky targets.

Libra is an unassuming zodiac constellation located on the ecliptic with an easy double star for binoculars.

The constellation of the Lynx has few bright stars but its deep-sky objects include pretty galaxies and one of the most remote globular clusters known.

Triangulum may be a small constellation with dim stars, but it holds one gorgeous galaxy.

Virgo the Virgin is rich in galaxies and holds one of the brightest stars in the night sky.

The Great Square of Pegasus dominates fall evenings. Learn the stars and deep-sky objects found in the Winged Horse.

Spring is prime time for galaxy observing. Look into the deep recesses of space to find galaxies strung one after another across the spring constellations.

Capturing the visible light spectrum through the Hubble telescope shows amazing images, but the Chandra X-ray telescope captures even more impressive images.

Andromeda, the Woman in Chains, is an unremarkable fall constellation except as a home to the easiest galaxy to see from Earth.

Many of the constellations close to the South Celestial Pole have dim stars and hard-to-identify shapes.

Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe, but De Sitter, Friedman, & Lemaitre used Einstein's general relativity to predict the expanding universe & the big bang.

Vesto M. Slipher was the first astronomer to measure the spectrum of an external galaxy. His work led to Hubble's discovery that the universe is expanding.

During World War II, Baade discovered that there were distinct stellar populations: The older Population II stars and Younger Population I stars.