It acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying distant galaxies behind it. The Cartwheel Galaxy, 500 million light-years away, has a distinct wheel shape from a galaxy collision. This event triggered ...

There are other complications as well. For example, not all galaxies are the same—that is, they differ in their shapes (morphology) and matter density. Astronomers can get around this by measuring ...

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

Black holes don’t have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

The JWST’s FRESCO program, developed by the team, systematically analyzed emission-line galaxies from the dawn of the ...

Camera upgrade. One of the big changes in the Galaxy A36 is the front camera. While the A35 had a 13 MP selfie camera, the A36 will feature a 12 MP sensor instead. This may seem l ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

A new study reveals that changes in gut microbial load, influenced by factors like diet, age, and antibiotics, drive the presence of bacteria previously linked to diseases such as inflammatory bowel ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

This process won't be complete for many millions of years — until then, Queen Berenice II will have to suffer the knots in ...