Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...

Beauty follows objective patterns in nature, guided by evolution and mathematics. The Fibonacci sequence and Golden Ratio ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

While mapping the nearby universe, astronomers discovered the largest-known structure in the universe, about 425 million to ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

It’s visible to the naked eye from a dark site. Astronomers as far back as the mid-18th century had speculated ... there could be enormous stellar systems outside the Milky Way – but astronomers now ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...

Astronomers can look forward to finding more multiringed galaxies in the future. Hubble's successor, NASA 's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope , is scheduled to launch in May 2027.

but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the instruments based on observations of seven distant clusters of galaxies bound together ...