Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

New images show galaxy forming that is similar in mass to young Milky Way - Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an unprecedented picture of ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular demise.

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is ...

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.

But not everything in our galaxy (or beyond) is the outcome of such ostentatious chaos. Some of the most visually captivating ...

The Sombrero galaxy looks entirely different in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a Mexican hat, it ...

Recent findings by the EHT collaboration reveal strong, organized magnetic fields around Sagittarius A*, suggesting common ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope may be living our dream of wandering through the cosmos. It's the year 2000. We're floating in ...