It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...
New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.
An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens. The group has written a paper describing the findings and ...
Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three massive galaxies from the early universe, revealing them to be as massive as the Milky Way and forming stars with surprising ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...
The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...
An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...
Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...
This process won't be complete for many millions of years — until then, Queen Berenice II will have to suffer the knots in ...
Fall evenings are perfect for astrophotography because the cool weather keeps those pesky mosquitoes away, which gives me ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, with the help of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), has captured a remarkable image of two galaxies engaged in a gravitational interaction, each spiraling around the ...
Despite the smokey clouds in the night sky, the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s 48MP main camera delivers an absolute stunning picture.