The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.
"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...
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Stars emerge from vast regions of gas and dust known as molecular clouds. These stellar nurseries, often spanning hundreds of ...
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This achievement showcases the immense advancements in space observation technology and ...
Edge on view of the Milky Way. Image: ESA During their research, the team stumbled upon not just Quipu but four other giant structures as well, per Live Science. Together, these five superclusters ...
It is more than 13,000 times the size of the Milky Way. Researchers found it while analysing galaxy cluster data. The study, available on ArXiv, is yet to be peer-reviewed. Currently, the largest ...
Named "Quipu" after an Incan measuring system, the superstructure spans an astonishing 1.3 billion light-years across which is over 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, according to a report ...
stretching at least twice the length of the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists added, however, that the black hole fueling the quasar producing the jets is small compared to other black holes ...
I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as I took myself out to remote dark sites to capture images. For many ...
Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or "trouble," as the team struggles to understand the physics behind it.