Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built with data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), consists of all the imaging and a catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all ...

Shining at magnitude 7.4 and stretching some 8’ by 6’, this was the first planetary nebula ever discovered. Its common name is derived from its distinctly elongated, bi-lobed shape ...

Roughly two to three billion years after the Big Bang came “Cosmic Noon,” which astrophysicists have discovered was a crucial period for a particular class of galaxies, Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs), ...

Stitched together from thousands of snapshots, the map is called the COSMOS-Web field, and it reveals almost 800,000 galaxies stretching all the way back to the universe’s start. “Our goal was to ...

And in recent years, measurements using the Hubble Space Telescope seemed to confirm a long-held prophecy: In about four or five billion years’ time, the two galaxies will clash, ultimately ...

A surprising pattern of spatial distribution was discovered in dwarf galaxies, whereby diffuse ones cluster more strongly than do compact ones — opposite to the trend seen in massive galaxies.

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as "Cosmic Noon," about 2 billion to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, have ...

The Hubble constant, a set number that connects a galaxy’s speed to its distance from Earth and tells us how fast the ...

The authors conclude that the likelihood of this collision and merger is closer to the odds of a coin flip, with a roughly 50 percent probability that the two galaxies will avoid such an event ...

That's the conclusion scientists have reached after revisiting the possibility of what we thought was a foregone conclusion: the eventual clash of giants, a collision between the Milky Way and the ...

However, the Local Group, or our corner of the universe, includes 100 known smaller galaxies. A team of astronomers factored in some of the largest among them, including the Large Magellanic Cloud ...