The beautiful galaxy Messier 94 (M94) is located in the Canes Venatici constellation, just 15 million light-years from Earth (1 light-year is the distance light travels in one year, approximately 9.46 ...

In basketball, a player achieves a “triple-double” when he or she reaches 10 or more in three statistical categories. This week’s naked-eye object is a selection of three double stars in the ...

Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It's part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs. In ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is situated just 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici ...

Nestled between the two brightest stars in Canes Venatici lies M94, a beautiful spiral galaxy 16 million light-years distant. Pierre Méchain discovered M94 on March 22, 1781, and communicated its ...

ANN ARBOR--Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, fewer galaxies were born than expected--and that could create new questions for galaxy physics, according to a new University of Michigan study. The ...

10. Cat’s Eye Galaxy (M94;NGC 4736) Apparent Magnitude 8.2 Located in the constellation of Canes Venatici lies Messier 94, a spiral galaxy, also known as the Cat ...

The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope peers into the heart of one of the most beautiful galaxies in the Messier catalog. Known as Messier 94—M94 for short (or NGC 4736)—it can be found ...