It took more than 11 billion years for the light from galaxy 9io9 to reach Earth. By Laura Baisas Published Sep 7, 2023 8:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Although we’re constantly receiving reports of breakthrough discoveries in space, it can be hard to picture the newly described astronomical objects. This new video from the Hubble Space Telescope’s ...

NGC 4631 is seen edge-on, with its disk of stars shown in pink; the filaments, shown in green and blue, extend beyond the disk into the galaxy’s extended halo; green indicates filaments with their ...

Astronomers making a detailed multi-telescope study of a nearby galaxy have discovered a magnetic field coiled around the galaxy’s main spiral arm. The discovery, they said, helps explain how galactic ...

Magnetic map: image of the galaxy 9io9 showing the orientation of its magnetic field. (Courtesy: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/J Geach et al.) The most distant galactic magnetic field ever observed has been ...

A galaxy that clings to our Milky Way has a strong and ordered magnetic field, even though the field ought to be in disarray since the galaxy itself is being torn apart. Astronomers think star ...

What you are looking at is the result of more than 120 HOURS of total exposure time. This long exposure ensures that the subtle features of the galaxy are seen in all of their glory (and let me tell ...

A new image from the VLA dramatically reveals the extended magnetic field of a spiral galaxy seen edge-on from Earth. A new image shows the huge extent of a spiral galaxy's magnetic field. The galaxy ...

Astronomers making a detailed, multi-telescope study of a nearby galaxy have discovered a magnetic field coiled around the galaxy’s main spiral arm. The discovery, they said, helps explain how ...