A team of astronomers used a cluster of galaxies like a magnifying glass to discover two never-before-seen distant galaxies. Pandora's Cluster warps the fabric of space-time, creating a visual effect ...

Astronomers have discovered a previously hidden "cosmic fuel tank" in an infant cluster of forming galaxies. This vast reservoir of cool molecular gas is found in the protocluster known as SPT2349-56, ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

Only one billion years after the Big Bang, clusters of galaxies were already forming. This discovery pushes back the age of the youngest known galaxy cluster by a third, and shows that the largest ...

Iconic star cluster found to be much bigger than previously thought - Researchers hope new findings will help trace origin of ...

What can heat distribution within galaxy clusters, which often consist of hundreds to thousands of galaxies, teach astronomers about their formation and evolution? This is what a recent study ...

The galaxy cluster is filled with bubbles blown into X-ray emitting gas, producing some of the deepest sounds ever heard. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of more than 5 billion years old globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. One of the results of these discoveries led ...

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy cluster in question is Abell 209, located 2.8 billion light-years away in ...

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The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

Learn how NASA’s TESS and ESA’s Gaia missions helped astronomers uncover thousands of hidden stars, revealing that the ...