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The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...
Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...
Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...
Scientists have been working on ways to find new worlds far from Earth, and this strange method theorized decades ago has ...
A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...
The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.
Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago—something never seen before. These observations reveal that galaxies first ...
A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor.
The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...