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When I first started working with integral field spectroscopic (IFU) data, I was struck by how much complexity was being ...
The neutrino is a ghost particle it can't be detected under normal circumstances, and it doesn't belong to earth, but it's ...
The NASA James Webb Space Telescope's Picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 2090, placed in the constellation Columba. This stunning image, created using data from Webb’s MIRI and NIRCam instruments, ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light ...
Astronomers have discovered a massive galaxy 153 times larger than the Milky Way. This cosmic giant challenges our ...
The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different ...
Rather than solid arms, spiral galaxies may show density waves—regions where matter slows down and bunches up, like cars in ...
John Grunsfeld captured a breathtaking image of the Tadpole Galaxy, shaped by past collisions and marked by bright bursts of star formation along its sweeping tail. David Leckrone's Hubble Ultra Deep ...
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a supermassive black hole in an unexpected place, 2,600 light-years from the galaxy's ...
A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...
If you’ve been reading this column lately, you might have noticed a recent trend where I try to answer some deceptively ...