Two massive galaxy clusters are slamming into each other, and for once astronomers are not reconstructing the crash from the ...

From our vantage point inside it, the Milky Way can feel infinite, a hazy river of light that wraps around the sky. Yet when ...

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Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Astronomers released new images this week of the Milky Way that offer an unprecedented look at an enormous slice of the galaxy, complete with star clusters, clouds of cosmic dust and the supermassive ...

A "dead" galaxy believed to have existed 700 million years after the Big Bang is stirring up a lot of concerns in the astronomy community right now. According to observations made with the James Webb ...

Hubble has captured yet another mesmerizing image of a spiral galaxy. This time, though, the space telescope also captured a shot of a nearby star that shines just as brightly as its galactic ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

Artist'ss impression of a black hole surrounded by matter waiting to fall in — Credit: © NASA, and M. Weiss (Chandra X -ray Center) Artist'ss impression of a black ...