Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

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On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

Discover how astronomers are using innovative methods to unravel the origins of these fascinating cosmic phenomena.

In Palestine, mammoth balloons are assembled at a NASA complex nestled off a two-lane country road. These balloons can ...

When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020, scientists ...

Dec. 11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an ...

There are many observations from JWST that have challenged our understanding of how galaxies grow and evolve in the early universe. Just to add another, a galaxy that looks like the Milky Way and is ...

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

The Milky Way is our galactic home, but just how big is it?  Dive into this fascinating exploration of the galaxy's size, scale, and structure. Get ready for an astronomical perspective on our place ...

WOH 5170: Another luminary of the Large Magellanic Cloud, WOH 5170 stands out for its sheer size and is considered among the largest stars discovered in this satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...