A new cosmic map is giving scientists an unprecedented ... such as the one Earth is in, the Local Group, which contains dozens of galaxies. In turn, these groups are part of massive clusters ...

The Local Group and other nearby galaxies appeared ... and do that for hundreds of galaxies, and then voilà! A 3D map of galaxy distribution within the supercluster. By the 1980s, astronomers ...

galaxies within our Local Group, and others billions of light-years away. A new map zooms out to an incredible scale. Two Johns Hopkins astronomers, Brice Ménard and Nikita Shtarkman, assembled ...

The Milky Way Galaxy is like a hilltop village, according to astronomer Andrew Fox. “At nighttime you can see torches shining in two nearby villages, the Magellanic Clouds, and a more distant ...

A new map of the Milky ... gave up," he says. "This group, Tully in particular, has persevered and kept working on it." After studying the peculiar motions of 8,000 galaxies, Tully and his ...

Small companion galaxies around our neighboring Andromeda galaxy appear to stretch and point toward Earth in a fascinating ...

The Local Group is a small clustering of galaxies ... Large galaxy surveys are attempting to measure millions of galaxies and map their distribution in space. We are only beginning to learn ...

One group, led by astronomer R ... fast they're moving), and other related motions. By mapping the velocities of galaxies throughout our local universe, the team can define the region of space ...

what’s left is the local motion of the galaxies. That can be used to map how gravity of other nearby galaxies is affecting them. This let them make a map of the density and movement of galaxies ...

Some of the galaxies are located at the edge of the so-called "local group," a galactic collection that includes our home, the Milky Way, while others are more distant. The observations could help ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified 1,678 galaxy groups up to 12 billion light years away, forming the largest and deepest sample ...