Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided arrangement of satellite galaxies that defy scientific…
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A secret population of hidden galaxies suffusing the universe in a soft glow of far-infrared light have been strongly suggested…
Read More »The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released the first batch of data from the groundbreaking Euclid space telescope, which…
Read More »A sea of galaxies photographed by the Euclid space telescope ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G.…
Read More »Astronomers have discovered something surprising about the universe’s smallest and faintest class of galaxies: Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs). A research team…
Read More »Many millions of years after the big bang, a point of light arose in a dark universe. This first star…
Read More »Astronomers have imaged a spectacular thread in the cosmic web, connecting two actively forming galaxies that existed when the universe…
Read More »Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in the early universe.…
Read More »What it is: The Antlia Cluster of galaxies (also called Abell S636) Where it is: 130 million light-years distant in…
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