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Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cannonball galaxy' blasting through spaceThe Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.
By Jamie Carter Published
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The Milky Way could be part of a much larger 'cosmic neighborhood' than we realized, challenging our understanding of the universeA probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed.
By Harry Baker Published
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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.
By Jamie Carter Published
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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.
By Samantha Mathewson Published
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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.
By Brandon Specktor Published
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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.
By Fabio Pacucci Published
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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.
By Samantha Mathewson Published
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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.
By Charles Q. Choi Published
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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’.
By Jamie Carter Published
astronomy
