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Researchers using the Webb telescope discovered a weird galaxy in the early universe where gas outshines its stars and may offer clues to the early universe.
A black hole duo is headed for a collision. The active central black holes of 2 distant merging galaxies are only 300 light-years apart.
An unusual occurrence of gravitational lensing created this view of a question mark galaxy. The discovery reveals details about early galactic evolution.
The Andromeda galaxy is the closest big galaxy to our Milky Way. At 2.5 million light-years, it's the most distant thing you can see with the eye alone.
Is the flavor of our galaxy rum and raspberries? One study suggested it might be, and Torani used this as inspiration for their 2024 flavor of the year: Galaxy.
Find the Andromeda galaxy on dark, moonless skies from now until the beginning of northern spring. Here are 2 ways to find it.
Analysis of El Gordo galaxy cluster's behavior suggests it might be a result of self-interacting dark matter. It may give insight into dark matter's nature.
Astronomers using the Webb space telescope have discovered the most distant galaxy yet known. It existed 290 million years after the Big Bang.
What is a galaxy? We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way. But there is so much more to know about these grand and glorious star islands in space!
The European INTEGRAL satellite detected a giant magnetar eruption of gamma rays. This rare, powerful event is the first witnessed in another galaxy.
Astronomers have discovered the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. They call the object Gaia BH3.
Steven Bellavia caught before and after images of galaxy NGC 4216, which is currently hosting a new supernova. Learn how he did it here.
Astronomers using the Webb telescope discovered an isolated dwarf galaxy 98 million light-years away. Contrary to expectations, it is not forming new stars.
Astronomers have discovered the oldest-known black hole. It dates back more than 13 billion years, to when the universe was only 400 million years old.
Astronomers pointed a radio telescope at the wrong coordinates in space and ended up discovering a primordial galaxy without stars.
When someone says "Milky Way," do you think of the starry pathway across our sky, or of the great pinwheel-shaped galaxy in space? Both are correct!
For the first time, astronomers have discovered a planet-forming disk around a young star in another galaxy outside our own Milky Way galaxy.
The Triangulum Galaxy, aka M33, is the farthest object you can see with the unaided eye, if in fact you can see it. But seeing it is a challenge.
Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have taken a close look at galaxy 9io9. The galaxy's magnetic field is the most distant that scientists have yet seen.
The James Webb Space Telescope just obtained incredible new infrared images of the famous Whirlpool galaxy, 27 million light-years from Earth.