NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy
Located 12 million light-years away and undergoing rapid star formation, edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is a…
Hubble Glimpses Merging Galaxy Clusters
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster, called CL0016+1609 or MACS J0018.5+1626, that is very…
Active black holes are more common than we thought
Dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 is known to house an active central black hole. However, the question of how…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So…
Hubble Sees Swarm of Galaxies
Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look
Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key…
Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster
The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of…
‘A Paradigm Shift’: Supermassive Black Hole Without a Galaxy Changes What We Thought Came First
While probing the dawn of the universe for the origins of ancient galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope…
NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy
Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it…
Hubble Captures Galaxy Cluster – NASA Science
Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and…
Characterizing galaxies at “cosmic noon” – Sciworthy
The universe is around 14 billion years old, but scientists theorize that no stars formed for the first…
Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that…