NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

A 'cosmic coincidence' leads to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

As the great detective said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ...

Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI On the back end of a telescope, looks can be deceiving. Two decades ago, astronomers spied something strange with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope that they dubbed ...

NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet “the cosmic tornado.” But it was too fuzzy to make out the background galaxy ...

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First observed in 2006 by NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope, past observations revealed that the HH 49/50 outflow is racing away from Earth at astonishing speeds of 100 to 300 kilometers ...