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The James Webb telescope captured Sparkler in a state at a time when the Universe was only 1/3 of its present age, around four billion years old Every star in the universe is a hope for new life. The James Webb Space Telescope has just discovered a galaxy that’s just …

It took two years — and 21,400 shots — to capture an astonishing view of your spiraled galactic home, the Milky Way. On Jan. 18, astronomers released a “gargantuan” survey of the Milky Way as part of an ambitious project called the “Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey.” They captured this …

Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to the oldest stars in the universe. An international team of astronomers has recently spotted the most distant galaxy ever, located about 13.5 billion light-years away. Astronomers named this galaxy HD1, which is exceptionally bright in ultraviolet …

The search is on for more galaxies lacking Hubble findings deepen the mystery surrounding galaxy missing dark matter, with more work needed in order to understand how these galaxies formed without dark matter.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of Proxima b, an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting the closest star to our sun. The European Southern Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) detected the planet in 2016. The Very Large Telescope based in Chile has a new and more powerful spectrograph named ESPRESSO, …

Samsung is in trouble in Australia over ads that suggested its Galaxy smartphones could be used while swimming. The country’s competition regulator filed a lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that the ads were misleading. Samsung touted its devices as being water resistant up to 1.5 meters deep for 30 minutes, and …

Galactic winds are believed to have a major impact on how mysterious black holes affect the development of galaxies around them, but scientists are as yet baffled by how exactly this powerful phenomenon occurs. Scientists have discovered the composition of the powerful galactic winds emanating from supermassive black holes, according …

The Hubble telescope has captured a spectacular photograph of one of the universe’s most majestic sights, a spiral galaxy in all its twirling glory. The powerful orbital telescope explored the NGC 2903 galaxy and the European Space Agency (ESA) released the dazzling image this week. The stunning spiral is located …