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Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...
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 ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...
NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of the active galactic center in spiral galaxy UGC 11397, located in the ...
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How weird is the Milky Way?
By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...
LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...
The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...
Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...
Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...