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Webb telescope captures new detail of Phantom Galaxy
The James Webb space telescope has revealed dazzling new detail of a previously known slice of the cosmos 32 million light-years away, in a new picture released by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
The infrared technology of the telescope, launched in December 2021, has allowed for an even clearer view of the so-called Phantom Galaxy than astronomers had ever seen before.
Astronomers may have discovered the first planet outside of our galaxy
While this is a tantalizing study, more data would be needed to verify the interpretation as an extragalactic exoplanet
Scientists reveal first image ever made of a black hole
Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers created the picture showing the violent neighborhood around a supermassive black hole, the light-sucking monsters of the universe theorized by Einstein more than a century ago and confirmed by observations for decades.
Milky Way Still Bears the 10-billion-year-old Scars of a Galactic Collision
Galaxies collide with each other on a pretty regular basis. Our own Milky Way, for instance, has gobbled up dozens of smaller galaxies in the past, and Andromeda is currently hurtling towards us at 109 km (68 mi) per second.
NASA Showed a Galaxy at 130 Million Light-years from Earth
US Space Agency NASA published a photo of spiral galaxy NGC 5714 in the Volovar constellation. It is about 130 million light-years from our planet.
The image of NGC 5714 is made with the Hubble Space Telescope with the ACS camera.
The Hubble Space Telescope Recorded the Fusion of Galaxies (Photos)
Scientists have acquired an early stage photo from a galactic fusion process thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope.
The two galaxies that were shot are some 350 million light years away from the Earth in the constellation Whale. The process is in an early stage. They will continue to converge for millions of years, and then become a homogeneous structure.
Chinese Astronomers Have Said that the Milky Way Limits Are 26% Wider
Chinese Astronomers from the State Observatory have said that the Milky Way limits are 26 percent wider than previously accepted, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said, quoted by BGNES.
Matter of Milky Way comes from other galaxies, study suggests
We are all made of star stuff and some of that stuff took a long journey to get here. According to new research, galaxies exchange copious amounts of material, and half of the material that makes up the Milky Way might have originated in another galaxy.