Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...
Beneath that is a selection of intriguing sights within the mosaic, labeled A through E: A: Star clusters in Andromeda, foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far ...
Like the nickname suggests, these celestial objects appear to be compact—much smaller than our Milky Way galaxy. And their color is reddish, although their light signatures are also unusual in ways ...
Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of carbon-rich dust in our own Milky Way galaxy in greater detail: Wolf-Rayet 140, a system of two massive stars that ...
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