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The James Webb Space Telescope’s first picture released to the public showed off thousands of galaxies. At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little stars ...
Supermassive black holes lurk at the center of every large galaxy. These cosmic behemoths can be millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun. Determining just how massive, however, has ...
Image of the newly discovered spiral galaxy Alaknanda (inset) as observed in the shorter wavelength JWST bands. Several bright galaxies from the foreground Abell 2744 cluster are also seen. A spiral ...
Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly. NGC 6956 is a barred spiral galaxy, a common type of spiral galaxy with a bar-shaped structure of stars ...
The Webb Space Telescope is ushering in the New Year in a similar fashion to us humans, by capturing images of brilliant bursts of color in the sky. Well, not quite “in the sky”—Webb itself is a ...
Hubble has just dropped more galactic eye candy! From its vantage point in low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an intricate portrait of the NGC 3430 galaxy, a classic spiral ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its classification. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a distant spiral galaxy into a laboratory for extreme weather in space, where gas, dust, and gravity combine to trigger a torrent of newborn suns ...