A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years aw…
Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...
'2.5 million light-years away': NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovers 36 dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has identified 36 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy. The images were compiled over ...
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How did Andromeda's dwarf galaxies form? Hubble Telescope finds more questions than answers
A family portrait of the Andromeda galaxy and its orbiting dwarf satellites raises questions about how galaxies evolve.
A fancy new telescope is heading to space: Here’s what SPHEREx will do
The findings it beams back to Earth during its two-year mission could help astronomers solve age-old mysteries, including how ...
NASA's Webb telescope threatened with budget cuts. They would hit hard.
The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into distant worlds and rewriting our grasp of the cosmos.And in 2025, its budget is on track to get slashed.At January's Meeting of the American Astronomical ...
Beautiful Hubble image shows the stunning colors of the Veil Nebula
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows one of the most famous and beautiful objects in the night sky.
SpaceX Starlink rocket launch this weekend: Where to watch in Palm Beach, West Palm, Boynton
Who's up for a late-night rocket launch? Weather permitting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket should be visible from Palm Beach ...
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'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detected
The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...
Program: New theory on the origin of black holes
Astrophysicists at UCLA suggest decaying dark matter may drive processes leading to the formation supermassive black holes.