“The discovery of this exceptional object has allowed us to accurately study the nature of the stars at the center of an elliptical galaxy in a remote era of the universe, when the galaxy was still young.”
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A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation Gemini (the Twins), around 380 million light-years from Earth. Classified as a barred spiral galaxy, […]
NASA’s XRISM X-ray spacecraft has clocked 2 million mph winds ripping out of a distant galaxy bursting with star formation.
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Astronomers have spotted the most distant and brightest “space laser” ever seen, and it’s blasting from a galaxy collision that occurred when the universe was half its current age.
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For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar activity at the heart of M82.
Astronomers captured a colorful new portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, revealing complex clouds of gas in between the galaxy’s 40 billion stars.
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What if the mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ aren’t baby black holes, but rather globular clusters in their messy, glorious formation?
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The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes caught a stunning portrait of a dying star at the heart of the Cat’s Eye Nebula.
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The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.
The galaxy NGC 941 was imaged by the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai’i.