A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.
Galaxy M94| This image captures the galaxy Messier 94, located in the small northern constellation of Canes Venatici (the ...
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The Milky Way is not considered an active galaxy—at least, not right now—but according to NASA it likely experienced a "burst of activity" within the past few million years. By far the most common ...
The discovery of something this immense surprisingly early in the lifetime of the universe overturns what we thought we knew ...
Named for the constellation within which it resides, the Triangulum is a bright, big spiral about half the width of our own ...
Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a distant zone dubbed the "Extreme Outer Galaxy," and zoomed ...
The last two weeks in space have brought us lots of highly-anticipated events and amazing discoveries. From mission launches ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668.
Throughout history, a belief in the “fixed” and changeless stars was held by many cultures. But at the beginning of the 19th ...
The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" supernovas over 65 million light-years away, helping ...
The two black holes are near the center of a galaxy shaped by the aftermath of a recent merger between two smaller galaxies.