Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
Is there anything more that this data can tell us?'" Bajaj, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, told Space.com. Soon, ...
The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies.
A new image shows Arp 105, a dazzling ongoing union between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy drawn together by ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the rare merger of two galaxies, which are forming what's been dubbed a "cosmic guitar." ...
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