The Edge of Our Galaxy Eluded Scientists for Years. They Finally Found It.

To find the end of the Milky Way, scientists looked to the outermost star-formation site, roughly 40,000 light-years from the ...

Astronomers map lifetime of over 100,000 molecular clouds across 66 galaxies

An international team of astronomers has analyzed the data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Atacama Large ...
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Our Milky Way's 'Zone of Avoidance' has a galaxy supercluster 30,000 trillion times the sun's mass

The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the ...
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Non-Rotating Early Galaxy Is a Surprise to Astronomers

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far ...

Early Galaxy That Doesn't Rotate Surprises Astronomers

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far ...

Scientists have found a hidden galaxy inside the Milky Way, and they’re calling it Loki

A new study suggests the Milky Way consumed an ancient dwarf galaxy billions of years ago, and its stellar remains may still be embedded within ours.
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Scientists detect an enormous halo around the iconic Sombrero Galaxy — Space photo of the week

The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile has captured an extended halo and a dust-filled disk around the hat-shaped ...
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Why were galaxies so active in the early universe? We may be getting close to the answer

Early galaxies were star-forming machines, furiously gobbling up gas and spitting out stars. A new model helps explain why ...
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Clusters of bright blue stars and glowing red gas clouds steal the show in this new Hubble image of a glittering galaxy that stopped me in my tracks

NASA has published a new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope depicting a nearby spiral galaxy “glittering” with ...
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Galaxies, Artemis 2, space telescopes and stormtroopers: Here are the best photos from our staff

Photos from around the space team.

UC Davis researchers investigate young galaxy that isn’t spinning

UC Davis researchers have made a surprising discovery with the help of the James Webb Telescope: a relatively young galaxy that isn’t spinning.
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Largest-ever 3D map of the universe shows 47 million galaxies, from the Milky Way to 'cosmic noon'

The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million galaxies in stunning detail.