A colossal cosmic filament, measuring 50 million light-years long, has been discovered spinning in deep space, astonishing ...

What are the exact sizes of galaxies, and are they bigger than they appear in deep space images? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team of ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

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The burst's host galaxy is more than halfway across the observable universe and up to 100 times fainter than other host galaxies. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

10 supernova explosions have been seen brightening the Fireworks Galaxy over the past century. Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a spectacular image of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) shining ...

Five years after my first attempt to capture the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by faint hydrogen alpha (Ha) clouds taken with a DSLR camera back in 2020, and inspired by the recent discovery by ...

A 3.5-gallon volume of deep space, specifically within the Milky Way's Orion-Cygnus Arm, would contain approximately 4 million neutrinos and about 13,000 gas atoms, predominantly hydrogen and helium.

Due to the costs and duration of the Hubble project, NASA was under pressure. At the end of 1995, it released a photo that ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Brecher imaged the distant ...

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