The Pillars of Creation are towering gas and dust structures in the Eagle Nebula, where new stars form. They are located about 6,500 light-years away. The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is a colorful ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light ...
Astrophysicists from Durham University have developed a new model to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life forming in ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster.
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...
A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.
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The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...
The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...
The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...