Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. A festive portrait of our Milky Way ...
Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye" culminating several years of ...
A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...
And they hope to use that to make the most detailed 3D map of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and also create a kind of time lapse video of the sky so that they can see how objects dim and brighten or ...
The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...
The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...
The first quarter moon on January 6. The waxing gibbous moon passes just north of Jupiter in the northeast. The big action is ...
On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...
In addition to the annual parade of star pictures or constellations passing above our heads each night, there are always ...