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Space photo of the week: Entangled galaxies form cosmic smiley face in new James Webb telescope imageA new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.
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The Andromeda Galaxy glows rosy red in gorgeous new Hubble Telescope imageThe Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with swathes of ionized gas that fuel star formation.
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What??? James Webb telescope finds giant question mark in spaceAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a pair of distant galaxies being twisted into a cosmic question mark thanks to a rare form of gravitational lensing.
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The James Webb telescope found hundreds of 'little red dots' in the ancient universe. We still don't know what they are.These small galaxies are either crammed with stars or they host gigantic black holes. The data astronomers have collected continues to puzzle them.
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Star-packed Triangulum Galaxy shines in new Hubble Telescope imageThe Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Early galaxies weren't mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds'The bottom line is, there is no crisis in terms of the standard model of cosmology.
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Space photo of the week: Milky Way's galactic twin captured by Dark Energy CameraNGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother’.
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AI uncovers the universe's 'settings' with unprecedented precision, and it could help to resolve the Hubble tensionThe new AI system can estimate cosmological parameters with stunning precision, and it could help astronomers unpick one of the thorniest problems in the field.
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How many galaxies are in the universe?If we can see at most 3% of the universe, how can we estimate the total number of galaxies in it?
