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Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy ...
A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won't form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback ...
One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive star which exploded in a supernova 10 ...
A brilliant cloud of gas shines beautifully 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy not that far from the Milky Way. The gas of the nebula, named LHA 120-N55, is ...
Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...
This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...
A galaxy spotted just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been implicated in bringing light to the choking dark of the early Universe.
The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...
Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green ...
Scientists have pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away - almost double the previous record.
A galaxy spotted just 330 million years ... to form neutral hydrogen (and a little bit of helium) gas. Most wavelengths of light could penetrate this neutral medium, but there was little in ...