The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international team led by Nikolaus Sulzenauer and Axel Weiß from the Max Planck ...

NASA has released a new gallery of 16 galaxy images combining X-ray observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory with data from several major telescopes, revealing hidden structures and extreme ...

A small group of young researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have, through observations of the early stages of an extremely large galaxy cluster's ...

Three unusual dwarf galaxies near the Pinwheel Galaxy may help astronomers test long-standing ideas about galaxy evolution ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gaia star clusters challenge the universal initial mass function used to estimate galaxy mass, star formation and evolution.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory just dropped a new cache of photographs that capture the stunning beauty of different types of ...

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Gas and dust also fall directly into the clouds, along with streams of matter called cosmic filaments. Together, clouds and ...