Galaxies

Astronomy Photographer of the Year Features Cosmic Fireworks and Aurora Dragons

Astronomy Photographer of the Year Features Cosmic Fireworks and Aurora Dragons

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year has been revealed with a hatful of spectacular celestial images picked from over ...

Astronomy Photographer of the Year Features Cosmic Fireworks and Aurora Dragons

Astronomy Photographer of the Year Features Cosmic Fireworks and Aurora Dragons

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year has been revealed with a hatful of spectacular celestial images picked from over ...

NASA’s Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole

NASA’s Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This image shows a quasar, a rapidly growing supermassive black hole, which is not achieving what astronomers would expect from it, as reported in ...

Using Hubble and Webb, scientists investigate galaxies responsible for the reionization of the universe

Using Hubble and Webb, scientists investigate galaxies responsible for the reionization of the universe

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

23 Utilizing the infrared-sensitive instruments of the joint NASA, European Space Agency, and Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, as well ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope Finds Unusual Galaxy ‘Not Really Expected To Exist’

NASA’s Webb Telescope Finds Unusual Galaxy ‘Not Really Expected To Exist’

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A new galaxy that shouldn’t exist has been discovered hiding in plain sight in images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. ...

Scientists Can’t Explain Mysterious Galaxy

Scientists Can’t Explain Mysterious Galaxy

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

By April Ryder | Published 12 seconds ago Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf galaxy in the cosmos that went undetected for ...

Starless Galaxy Discovered Comes From The Dawn Of Time?

Starless Galaxy Discovered Comes From The Dawn Of Time?

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

By TeeJay Small | Published 1 min ago Though technology has advanced so much in recent decades, the science of outer space ...

Our galaxy could be stuck in a completely empty void, according to scientists

Our galaxy could be stuck in a completely empty void, according to scientists

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

In news which may seem underwhelming, a group of researchers from Germany, Scotland and the Czech Republic have suggested that rather than ...

NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way

NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, ...

Webb Telescope Spots the Second-Most-Distant Galaxy Yet

Webb Telescope Spots the Second-Most-Distant Galaxy Yet

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A recent deep field image from the Webb Space Telescope, showcasing a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster, or Abell 2744, ...