Star cluster reveals its colors in stunning 80-million-pixel image
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...
9 Brilliant Astronomy Events to Be Sure to See This Year
From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...
A 200,000-Light-Year Jet Ignites New Questions About the Early Cosmos
Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...
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Zoom Into The Milky Way's Sagittarius A* Black Hole
ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, GRAVITY Collaboration, EHT Collaboration (Music: Azul Cobalto) ...
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Scientist image 3-million-light-year-long 'cosmic web' ensnaring 2 galaxies for 1st time
"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...
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An Enormous, Branching String of Galaxy Clusters Is the Largest Known Structure in the Universe, Scientists Say
The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...
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Webb Telescope spots ‘cosmic question mark’ that mirrors a young Milky Way
Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...