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Scientists share groundbreaking image of the 'cosmic web' connecting 2 galaxies near the dawn of time
After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...
Space telescope reveals rare ‘Einstein ring’ phenomenon with startling clarity
The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...
Wicked High-Definition Image of the Cosmic Web Shows the Universe’s Dark Matter Scaffolding
New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.
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Space pictures! See our space image of the day
This image was captured in 1995 by the the Hubble ... LEDA 1313424 has more rings than any other known galaxy in the universe. Scientists were able to view eight rings using Hubble, and then ...
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Some Stars Are Born From Fluffy Clouds in the Early Universe
Images from ALMA telescope provide insight to the earlier years of our universe.
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An Enormous, Branching String of Galaxy Clusters Is the Largest Known Structure in the Universe, Scientists Say
Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
Euclid Telescope Spots Einstein Ring Wrapped Around a Galaxy
The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...
Small Magellanic Cloud observations provide insight into early universe star formation
Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...