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"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...
An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.
An ancient galaxy throws astronomers a curveball as it confuses them, but may also have the answer to a question billions of ...
A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...
The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years ...
The existence of a second two-disk galaxy suggests that the Milky Way is rather vanilla, perhaps because the two types of supernovae naturally produce thin and thick disks in most spiral galaxies.
The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using ...
Astronomers have recently spotted signs of an extended disk of dust and gas, whirling in orbit around a distant star. While this phenomenon is a normal stage in the development of a star and its ...
However, the discovery of a massive rotating disk galaxy, much like our own Milky Way, when the Universe was just 1.5 billion years old calls these models into question.
Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...