Antlia 2, which was recently found orbiting the Milky Way, is the most diffuse galaxy that anyone has ever discovered up to this point in time.

UKS 1 probably lies on the far side of the Milky Way, and the light from the cluster is heavily obscured by interstellar dust, but even though it's hard to see, astronomers are still really interested in it.

R Aquarii could be described as one of the closest symbiotic binary star systems to Earth, but it's more complicated than that.

NGC 6052 looks like a spiral galaxy smashing into a wall of stars, which is more or less what is actually happening.

Although at first NGC 6781 may look like a spherical planetary nebula, it actually has a cylindrical shape, which has rather complex scientific implications for analyzing this object.

The red dwarf HD 260655 has two large, hot, rocky planets orbiting very close to it.

As the largest open cluster that anyone has found in the Milky Way, Westerlund 1 contains a lot of rare and weird stars.

The evolved red star HD 214362 is orbiting the center of the Milky Way in a very eccentric way (as in either its orbit is a very elongated ellipse or its orbit is just plainly strange).

In 1970, the quasar 4C 05.34 was the most distant known object in the universe, but this is not the only interesting fact about this object.

A large mass of gas fell into the lenticular galaxy NGC 3593 about 2 billion years ago, and this gas both changed the appearance of the galaxy and also created new stars that now orbit the galaxy in the opposite direction from the older stars.