NASA's James Webb space telescope has captured a new photo of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), a region of space found within the Fornax constellation. This constellation is in the southern sky and ...
A new image captures a spectacular concentration of galaxies known as the Fornax Cluster, which can be found in the southern hemisphere constellation of Fornax (The Furnace). The cluster plays host to ...
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This jewel-bright image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1385, a spiral galaxy 68 million light-years from Earth, which lies in the constellation Fornax. The image was taken with ...
After over 10 years of service tracking celestial objects near and far, NASA’s NEOWISE satellite has sent its final image home before going gently into that good night. The star-studded infrared photo ...
In a cluster of galaxies about 62 million light-years away, a galactic cannibal is lurking: New images of the Fornax Cluster — a.k.a. “The Furnace” — snapped in wide scope by the VLT Survey Telescope ...
This week’s first small-telescope target is open cluster NGC 956 in Andromeda. You’ll find it 5.7° east-northeast of magnitude 2.2 Almach (Gamma [γ] Andromedae). NGC 956 shines at magnitude 8.9 and ...
The Fornax Dwarf is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, and the second discovered. It was found by astronomer Harlow Shapley, shortly after he identified one in Sculptor. He described both in a 1938 ...