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The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy located in the Supergalactic Plane, and while we already know it's special because it contains Earth, it's remarkable in other ways, too. Look [...]

The (https://www.livescience.com/tag/james-webb-space-telescope) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a trio of gigantic 'red monster' galaxies in the early universe, and they could rewrite our understanding of how stars and [...]

In space, the gravitational pull of massive objects is irresistible to smaller ones. Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars [...]

What it is: Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies Where it is: 465 million light-years away, in the constellation Leo Minor When it was shared: Sept. 18, 2024 Why [...]

iTeos Therapeutics announced follow-up interim data from GALAXIES Lung-201, the Phase 2 platform study sponsored by iTeos' development partner GSK (GSK), assessing the belrestotug + dostarlimab doublet in previously untreated, [...]

REGULARS Understanding the formation of galaxies Atomic hydrogen is a simple atom, but it's used to create incredibly detailed images of our universe. Naomi McClure-Griffiths explains. NEXT BIG THING I [...]

A SURPRISING number of distant, banana-shaped galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be tracing a vast web of dark matter from the universe’s first moments, and [...]

News Cosmology ‘Banana’ galaxies unpeel a mystery Strange, banana-shaped galaxies spotted by astronomers seem to take this form because of filaments of dark matter, finds Alex Wilkins A SURPRISING number [...]

The Milky Way is just a speck in a universe filled with an untold number of galaxies. But if we had to take an educated guess, how many galaxies are […]

Regulars Food for galaxies from the dawn of time Gas reservoirs spotted around early galaxies for the first time A trio of galaxies dating from when the Universe was only […]

Paris, France (SPX) Jul 15, 2024 To mark the second anniversary of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's scientific operations, a captivating image of two interacting galaxies known as Arp [...]

Regulars / CUT TING EDGE Unearthing galaxies in the archives Comparing old Hubble data to today is revealing distant active galaxies Over the last year or so, images from the [...]

A search of more than 1,300 galaxies for extraterrestrial signals has helped constrain expectations as to how many communicating technological civilisations may exist beyond Earth. Conducted with the Murchison Widefield [...]

The Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) is one of the most famous and most frequently observed and photographed deep-sky objects in the whole of the night sky, and rightly so. Easily [...]

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted six anomalous young galaxies that threatened to break cosmology. Have they asks Stuart Clark THEY were, on the face of it, inexplicably massive. In [...]

Features Why do we see so many galaxies in spring? Consider the wider view for the reason galaxies are on the menu this season Why is spring ‘galaxy season’ in [...]

Alex Wilkins ONE of the largest quasars in the early universe has helped to reveal a vast “protocluster” of nascent galaxies that is expected to grow more massive than any [...]

News Astronomy Huge set of galaxies set to form largest known cluster Alex Wilkins ONE of the largest quasars in the early universe has helped to reveal a vast “protocluster” [...]

Now is one of the best times of the year to be looking up at the night sky. In the weeks around the spring equinox on 20 March, the nights [...]

>> All massive galaxies like the Milky Way host super-massive black holes (SMBHs) millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun in their centers. But astronomers aren't yet [...]

Humans do not notice the rotational motion of galaxies because galaxies are so unimaginably large. Galaxies are so large it takes them a long time to complete one rotation. For [...]

ONE of the largest quasars in the early universe has helped to reveal a vast 'protocluster' of nascent galaxies that is expected to grow more massive than any galaxy cluster [...]

PAR ANNE DEBROISE 1 Elles sont façonnées par des vents galactiques Les galaxies expulsent des vents à grande vitesse, qui résultent de l’explosion d’étoiles massives. Pour la première fois, l’instrument [...]

Most galaxies are shaped like either an orb or—as in the case of our own Milky Way—a spidery disc. But they may not have started out that way. A new [...]

Syracuse NY (SPX) Jan 12, 2024 At the center of most large galaxies lives a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The Milky Way has Sagittarius A*, a mostly dormant SMBH whose [...]

India, Jan. 10 -- A fast radio burst that occurred when the universe was just 5 billion years old was detected in 2022 Scientists have traced the origin of the [...]

Evanston IL (SPX) Jan 10, 2024 In summer 2022, astronomers detected the most powerful fast radio burst (FRB) ever observed. And coming from a location that dates halfway back to [...]

A bright ribbon formed from cold hydrogen surrounds the spiral galaxy NGC 4632. (COURTESY ATNF ASKAP SUBARU HYPER-SUPRIME CAM) WHEN SOMEONE MENTIONS a galaxy, odds are you’ll imagine a disc-like [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Dec 07, 2023In a groundbreaking discovery, an international research team, led by a CNRS scientist, has unveiled the role of galactic winds in regulating the growth of [...]

If you've observed all of the events this month has to offer, or you're in between astronomical events, why not take a tour of April's star patterns? The constellations of [...]

9 February 2024 The Hubble Space Telescope has stepped on the tails of 12 interacting galaxies and found them to be studded with the shining diamonds of young star clusters--scientists [...]

31 January 2024 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has zoomed in on one side of a cosmic tug of war that will rage between two galaxies for tens of millions of [...]

As winter turns to spring, the very nature of the night sky changes. Gone are winter's bright stars, bold constellations and obvious deep-sky delights such as the Orion Nebula, the [...]

Many small galaxies that existed early in the universe's history are elongated in a surfboard-like shape, pointing to the influence of the cosmic web of matter and constant mergers with [...]