There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

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A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

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The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

The VLT Survey Telescope captured a spooktacular image of a nebula that looks like a dark wolf in the sky just in time for ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...