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Astronomers ‘accidentally’ discover a new galaxy with as many stars as the Milky Way
They might not have gone looking for it, but they found it. Astronomers 'accidentally' stumbled acr…
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A NASA image shows the center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect far more revealing photos from a soon-to-launch telescope.
JWST will study every phase of the universe's history in order to learn about how the first stars a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New photo shows the oldest-ever spiral galaxy, which was formed at least 1 billion years earlier than previously thought
The findings can provide clues on how spiral galaxies like the Milky Way have formed, a leading res…
Marianne Guenot
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Astronomers spotted a galaxy dying after a major collision. It's bleeding out 10,000 suns' worth of gas each year.
Galaxies need cold gas to form new stars, and this one is bleeding 10,000 suns worth of the stuff e…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Side-by-side images of a whirlpool galaxy show details NASA's James Webb telescope captured but Hubble missed
The images show the majestic spiral arms of the M51, a galaxy located 27 million light-years away i…
Ellie Zolfagharifard,Marianne…
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Astronomers accidentally discovered an invisible 'monster galaxy' from the beginning of the universe
Scientists know that large, mature galaxies appeared early in the universe's history, when it was a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers just spotted a giant galaxy orbiting our own
Crater 2 is a dwarf galaxy, a type of small galaxy containing only a few billion stars (compared to…
Ali Sundermier
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NASA's James Webb telescope discovers the earliest strand of a mysterious 'cosmic web' that links galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a long, narrow filament of ten galaxies that existed 830 mil…
Marianne Guenot
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Milky Way might have 36 intelligent civilisations — but humans are unable to communicate with them
London, June 15 (IANS) There could be 36 active intelligent civilisations in our own galaxy, the Mi…
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NASA's powerful Hubble space telescope has beamed back a striking photo of a 'fluffy' galaxy with a ghostly, empty center
The photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows how newborn stars have used up all the gas at th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A three-way collision of galaxies has given birth to a monstrous black hole
But the galaxy in question, IRAS 20100-4156, appears to be made up of three separate spiral galaxie…
Ali Sundermier
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NASA's James Webb telescope spotted a strange 13 billion-year-old galaxy that shouldn't exist
The galaxy could re-write what we know about how dark matter shaped the early universe.
Marianne Guenot
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NASA just captured a record-breaking photo of a galaxy that's far, far away
The astronomers who found it caught only a glimpse of the faint, distant galaxy thanks to a cluster…
Kelly Dickerson
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James Webb Space Telescope takes high-detail image of rare Cartwheel Galaxy, formed by a messy cosmic collision
The space telescope took a fresh look at the Cartwheel Galaxy and shed light on how the galaxy has …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Hubble Just Found One Of The Faintest, Smallest, And Oldest Galaxies We've Ever Seen
It's hard to tell when radiation began warming the hydrogen gas that clouded the universe, but astr…
Jessica Orwig
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5 ways the world's most controversial telescope could revolutionize astronomy
Once the hot soup of particles generated by the big bang started to cool, they clustered into atoms…
Kelly Dickerson
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7 Easter eggs in the images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are totally new to astronomy
An astronomer points out hidden sights in NASA's new images, from previously invisible star cluster…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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This Mega Star City Hides A Strange Secret
Galaxy clusters are sometimes called mega star cities due to their size and also because the indivi…
Jessica Orwig
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A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes
A very early galaxy puzzling scientists suggests supermassive black holes may not have come from de…