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A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that ...
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How weird is the Milky Way?
In the vast expanse of the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy holds a special place in our hearts. It is our home, and after studying it for decades from our cosmic residence nestled within one of its ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...
Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...
Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.
A distant galaxy 12 billion light-years away shows signs of being a jellyfish galaxy, with trailing streams of gas caused by ...
When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...
A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...
Webb’s new images of the Bullet Cluster reveal the most detailed dark matter map yet, shedding light on cosmic collisions and ...
The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...
Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...
A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...