The Phoenix Cluster's central galaxy is about 5.8 billion light-years away and should be mostly done with star formation. Many galaxy clusters have a region of hot gas in the intracluster medium (ICM) ...
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful ...
There are questions that have been on the human mind for hundreds of years. Many of them, of course, are related to the ...
Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn how the imagery is processed into amazing color views of the cosmos. Credit ...
A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.
A stunning Valentine's view of a nebula contains hidden depths of starbirth and the violent deaths of massive stars.
Webb Telescope captures stunning new images of HH 30, revealing a dynamic protoplanetary disc where planets form.
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.