How to catch a supernova explosion before it happens—and what we can learn from it
Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the ...
Dense molecular gas and dusty torus detected in the Swelling Spiral galaxy
Using the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico, astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of the Swelling ...
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The Sombrero Galaxy's star-forming days are nearly over — and the James Webb Space Telescope may know why
A brand-new James Webb Space Telescope image captures the steady, slow lifestyle of the distinctive Sombrero Galaxy.
Space photo of the week: Hubble uncovers the true identity of an odd galaxy — and it's not spiral or elliptical
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...
7 RAREST images of Deep Space shared by NASA
Busy Galactic Center: The spiral galaxy IC 4709, located in the southern constellation Telescopium, lies around 240 million ...
Astronomers explore globular cluster system of ultra-diffuse galaxy VCC 615
Astronomers have employed the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to observe an ultra-diffuse galaxy known as VCC 615. Results of ...
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Galaxies, Clusters, and Superclusters
One such collision can be seen in the lower right of the image of the Virgo cluster below. Galaxies at the center of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies The largest nearby cluster of galaxies is the ...
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Hubble Captures a New View of Galaxy M90
M90 sits among the galaxies of the relatively nearby Virgo Cluster, and its orbit took M90 on a path near the cluster’s center about three hundred million years ago. The density of gas in the ...
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7 latest images of space objects captured by NASA James Webb Telescope
The dwarf galaxy is one of many forcing its way through the comparatively dense gas in the massive Virgo cluster of galaxies. M17, also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan Nebula, is one of the ...