Pegasus is said to resemble the shape of a horse with wings and is next to the much fainter Pisces constellation. The beauty of this area of the sky is that it's relatively quiet compared to other ...

The composite image of NGC 1275, or Perseus A, reveals its dynamic structure by blending optical, radio, and X-ray data. Cygnus X-1, about 10,000 light-years away, is a powerful black hole pulling ...

Star patterns such as the hunter Orion and the winged horse Pegasus are commonly called constellations. But the term constellation in modern astronomy actually refers to a particular region of the ...