Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are massive, with plasma jets powered by supermassive black holes at their centers, stretching ...
The Bullseye galaxy is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings. Fifty million years ago, two galaxies met up in space. One was tiny, the other large. The small galaxy ...
As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.
This event can be likened to a dart striking the Bullseye in a game of Knockout at a local pub.
I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as I took myself out to remote dark sites to capture images. For many ...
Astronomers discover Quipu, a colossal cosmic structure spanning 1.3 billion light-years, which could reshape our ...
The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...
Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or "trouble," as the team struggles to understand the physics behind it.
Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...
Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...
When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of ...
Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...