Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...
Astronomers suggest that galaxies might be anchored to massive, invisible dark stars composed of 'fuzzy' dark matter, which ...
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By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ...
Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.
A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...
The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...