The discovery comes just days before what is anticipated to be a bumper year for exoplanet discovery, with the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to release more data.

In addition to livestacking, there are now “smart telescopes” available that will take and process images of the night sky as ...

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The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Galaxy clusters—the big cities of the universe—are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth ...

Firefly Sparkle is among the earliest galaxies humans have observed, which formed merely some 600 million years after the Big ...

In some areas of Webb's image, the galaxy is magnified more than 40 times. "Most of the other galaxies Webb has shown us aren’t magnified or stretched, and we are not able to see the ‘building blocks’ ...

Diagram of the gravitational lensing phenomenon. Credit: NASA/ESA/L. Calçada These galaxies, detected as part of the GLIMPSE program, mark a major milestone. Their light traveled for 13.6 billion ...

The image in question displays two cloudy galaxies above the orange glow of ... a childhood passion all the way to writing a guide for other ISS astronauts interested in space photography, per ...

The quasar's luminosity outshines the brightest giant elliptical galaxies by over tenfold. In other words, this one object at the center of a galaxy is brighter than all the stars in 10 galaxies ...

The rate at which the universe is expanding is expressed as a value called the Hubble Constant, generally abbreviated as “H 0 ...