Yewande Oluwole, 5, and her sister Jadesola, 3, love astronomy and can name every planet—even the dwarf planets. But peering ...

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High in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the ALMA Telescope peers deeper into the cosmos than ever before. With its vast network of antennas, it’s revealing how galaxies, stars, and planets are born — ...

As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid ...

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A feathery ring of dust and stars known as galaxy NGC2775 continues to irk astronomers and has yet to be defined after NASA released updated imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy about ...

NGC 2775 has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, ...

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Why it's so special: Stars in the Milky Way galaxy are born in huge molecular clouds. The most massive is Sagittarius B2, which is just a few hundred light-years from our the galaxy's central black ...