The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...
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Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...
An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...
The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark ...
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years ...
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...
For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are ...
Telescopes don't come any smaller than the Dwarf 3, but does its portability come at the cost of image quality? Read the ...
The University of California San Diego is positioning itself as a leader in astronomical research as its new Department of ...
Hubble has captured UGC 8091, a festive bundle of lights. Located about seven million light-years away in the Virgo constellation, it’s also known as GR 8.
Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...