In Star Wars, nothing is ever really gone, especially if you’re a contemporary streaming show on Disney+ and are in need of another callback to the wider saga. This week’s Ahsoka… Read More
“Far, Far Away,” the sixth episode of Ahsoka, took the series, and us, to a whole new galaxy full of potential and new mysteries. But in doing so, it touched on a fascinating pie… Read More
Astrophysics is a branch of astronomy that focuses on the study of the physical properties and behavior of celestial objects and phenomena in the universe. It combines principles of physics… Read More
This week Ahsoka kicked off a new chapter of Star Wars’ latest quest for a map to find people—the race between heroes and villains alike to find out just what happened to Ezra Br… Read More
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.Thomas LewtonThe original version of this story appeared i… Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a breathtaking image of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51, also known as NGC 5194. Located approximately 27 million light-years away in th… Read More
Astronomers have captured a supernova, “SN Zwicky,” appearing as multiple images due to gravitational lensing. Part of the largest supernova survey to date, this observation… Read More
A recent discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed evidence of carbon-based molecules and dust existing only a billion years after the Big Bang. The discovery challenge… Read More
Astronomers looking at ancient light seen by the Webb Space Telescope have found three pinpricks that they think could be “dark stars,” theoretical objects powered by dark matter… Read More
This infrared image taken by the Webb Space Telescope comprises more than 45,000 galaxies, many of which existed in the first billion years of the universe.The image captures the GOODS-S fie… Read More
The Euclid space telescope will map the “dark Universe” by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion lightyears, across more than a third of the sky, to gather data on h… Read More
The Circinus Galaxy is a Seyfert galaxy located 13 million light-years away in the southern constellation Circinus. It is one of the closest active galaxies to the Milky Way. It has an appar… Read More
100 Mind-Blowing Universe Facts
The universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old.
The observable universe is estimated to contain over 100 billion galaxies.
Our Milky Way galaxy… Read More
This is an image centered on a relatively nearby galaxy cluster dubbed Abell 3158; light from these … [+] galaxies had a redshift value of 0.059, meaning that it traveled approximat… Read More
A swath of sky measuring 2% of the realm lined by the total moon was imaged with Webb’s Close to-Infrared Digital camera (NIRCam) in eight filters, and with Hubble’s Superior Dig… Read More
James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies. This image elements furnished by NASA … [+] https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubble-catches-starbursts-in-a-barred-spi… Read More
The researchers were able to see the zone of avoidance.
The Earth isn’t flat – but it is Milky Way. The majority of stars and planets are located in the Milky Way at the same… Read More
L’illustrazione di questo artista mostra la posizione e le dimensioni di un’ipotetica nuvola di polvere che circonda il nostro sistema solare. Crediti: NASA, ESA e Andi James… Read More
Some Surprisingly Far Away Relatives Are Shared By The Mysterious Magnetic Filaments Of The Milky WayEarly this year, astronomers reported finding around 1,000 magnetic filaments encircling… Read More
Cosmic rays seem to be all around us. This is exactly what makes it difficult to find their sources. It would be helpful if you could trace their path through space. A new program will h… Read More
A first-of-its-kind study has found new stars forming beyond the visible boundaries about 1.5 to 3.9 billion light years away from the Earth, according to an article by a research scholar… Read More
In its early days, the Milky Way was like a giant smoothie, as if galaxies consisting of billions of stars, and an enormous amount of gas had been thrown together into a gigantic blender. Bu… Read More
A survey completed using a combination of ground and space-based telescopes yielded a treasure trove of previously unknown globular clusters — old, dense groups of thousands of stars… Read More
So how exactly did the universe come into existence? "A recent astronomical measurement recorded in a laboratory at the South Pole is causing scientists to revisit their theories..." writes… Read More
Back in 2013, Dr Vithal Tilvi was an integral member of the team led by Dr Steve Finkelstein of the University of Texas, Austin, in discovering the farthest known galaxy in the universe, est… Read More
One of the rarest extragalactic objects in the Universe is now no longer puzzling scientists’ work. Thanks to a new method of detecting the whereabouts of quasars, we’re closer t… Read More
eso2101 — Science Release
11 January 2021
Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this p… Read More
As recently as the start of the 20th century, the idea that the Milky Way contained everything that existed in the Universe was predominant and astronomers were unaware of the existence of o… Read More