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This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...
The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...
Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...
The work has been published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Over one-third of the 'normal' matter in the local universe—the visible stuff making up stars, planets, galaxies, life—is missing.
According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...
This is part of what makes galaxy clusters like PLCKG 287.0+32.9 (pronounced “Planck 287” for short) interesting to astronomers — “they carry memories of our early universe, therefore ...
A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...
The highly inclined barred spiral M108 in Ursa Major is sometimes called the Surfboard Galaxy. It's not to be missed.
Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.
Abell 2255 is a cluster containing between 300 and 500 constituent galaxies, many of which are merging. It's located around 800 million light-years from Earth and spans around 16.3 million light ...