A team of astronomers used a cluster of galaxies like a magnifying glass to discover two never-before-seen distant galaxies. Pandora's Cluster warps the fabric of space-time, creating a visual effect ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

The third day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a deep-space image of more than 100 galaxies close ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The cosmic community of Abell 1489 comes into focus in this image of the galaxy cluster taken by ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million ...

The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Galaxy clusters are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerations of galaxies, hot gas, and dark matter and represent the largest structures in the Universe held together ...

Cosmology scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have made a rare discovery: a cluster of galaxies that span most of the observable universe. This cluster — the Carousel Lens — is ...

Only one billion years after the Big Bang, clusters of galaxies were already forming. This discovery pushes back the age of the youngest known galaxy cluster by a third, and shows that the largest ...

Does dark matter interact with itself? The answer may lie in vast clusters of colliding galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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