Using the stalwart Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers have found a galaxy 300 million light away that appears to ...
A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.
“The Euclid data clearly confirm the presence of the extremely faint, diffuse light of CDG-2, revealing the galaxy behind the ...
A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it looks like nothing special. No ...
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Called CDG-2, this newly identified “ghostly” galaxy may be one of the most dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered, with a staggering 99% of its total mass made up of dark matter — a ...
You know that feeling when you find something hiding right where you’ve been looking all along? Astronomers just had that ...
Astronomers used AI to search 35 years of Hubble data and discovered over 1,300 rare cosmic anomalies hidden in plain sight.
The Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled the intriguing galaxy NGC 2775, characterized by a mind-bending shape that challenges astronomers’ understanding of galaxy formation and classification. NGC ...
We generally think about the Universe as being mostly an empty space, decorated with billions upon billions of light sources that make it pretty shiny, despite the underlying darkness of it all. These ...
Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...