NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous supermassive black hole at its core.
The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...
Due to its stellar activity, the galaxy has become a favorite for astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Orbiting ...
Astronomers have captured the most detailed view yet of a red supergiant star just before it exploded, hidden beneath layers of cosmic dust. Credit: Shutterstock Astronomers using the James Webb Space ...
See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown ...
Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...
The galaxy our planet inhabits is called the Milky Way for the simple reason that, as seen from our world, its impossible-to-count collection of stars looks like a band of milky white light. In all ...
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The cluster can offer fresh insights into how stars of all sizes form and evolve. Star clusters are among the many objects observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. These gravitationally bound groups of ...
On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...
As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...