Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

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See amazing views of colliding galaxies NGC 520 and barred galaxy IC 4212 in imagery from the Siena Galaxy Atlas. Credit: ...

Astrophysicist Lukas Böhme and his team at Bielefeld University have discovered that our solar system is moving through the ...

The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the ...

Precise measurements from multiple radio telescopes strongly suggest that our solar system is moving far too fast for our ...

Brecher's image reveals spectacular detail in the spiral arms of the 14,000- light-year wide galaxy, where dense dust lanes ...

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Scientists estimate over 100 billion galaxies in the universe, each unique in shape and size, revealing the vastness of cosmic creation.

A dwarf galaxy 100 million light years away is being stripped of its crucial star-forming gas, and it seems that the cosmic ...