Astronomers have a long tradition of finding holiday cheer in outer space. This image of the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster was made with data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble ...

If you could ride on the fastest space probe NASA has ever made, it would still take you thousands of years to get there. If stars are like houses, then galaxies are like cities full of houses.

The far outskirts of our galaxy are teeming with activity. Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a distant zone dubbed the "Extreme Outer Galaxy," and zoomed in on dense ...

In this galaxy, the outer ring appears to be more blue than the center red section. ... Gaze at a cluster of glowing galaxies | Space photo of the day for May 2, 2025.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the very outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Known as the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this region is located more than 58,000 light-years from the ...

Two of the most distant galaxies seen to date are captured in these Webb pictures of the outer regions of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 2744. The galaxies are not inside the cluster, but many ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may be surrounded by 100 undetected 'orphan' galaxies Gamma-ray bursts reveal largest structure in the universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we knew: 'The jury is still ...

In space, some galaxies apparently recycle without any signs to remind them. At least one galaxy isn’t letting materials that could form potential stars go to waste.

UC Irvine astronomers, along with scientists across the globe, are discovering hundreds of new galaxies through brighter galaxies in front of them that deflect their faint light back to the ...

Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than ...

Outer Space Just Got a Little Brighter. ... was that there were more very faint galaxies or star clusters contributing to the background light of the universe than their models indicated.