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'was known for his decades of work and contributions in galactic astronomy'

Colliding galaxies can create a beam of focused microwave radiation known as a maser, and astronomers have discovered the brightest one ever seen ...

A team of astronomers led by David Li has recently confirmed the discovery of ten potential "dark galaxies," where starlight is so faint that it's extremely difficult to detect anything with traditional observatories. The new list also includes ...

Everybody knows that galaxies are large structures made of stars.

Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth's two lobes produced by gravitational collapse - and reveals process ...

Hubble has just discovered one of the darkest galaxies known to exist. It's named Candidate Dark Galaxy-2, or CDG-2 for short. This faint object is located in the Perseus galaxy cluster, around 300 million light years from Earth. Most galaxies ...

The development of infrared detector arrays is intertwined with my experiences working on NASA projects. As an astronomer at a university, my interactions ...

Viking's resident astronomer, Howard Parkin MBE, is hoping for 'another dramatic outburst of auroral displays' during the sun's declining phase of its cycle.

A city-sized green comet, C/2024 E1 (Wierzcho), is approaching Earth and will soon be ejected into interstellar space, offering astronomers a rare chance to study a hyperbolic visitor from the Oort cloud.