When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A view of the Abell 1689 galaxy cluster, filled with purple galaxies and bright stars, showing off its enormous dark matter content. | Credit: NASA Dark matter is notoriously antisocial, refusing to interact with light and “normal” matter, effectively… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Composite visible-light and X-ray image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2390, showing the large area of hot, X-ray emitting gas within the cluster. | Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA By combining a new image of a giant image galaxy cluster with… Read More »
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered clusters of stars in the “Cosmic Stones” arc that existed only 460 million years after the Big Bang. This marks the first discovery of star clusters in a newborn galaxy, seen when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was less than 500 million years old. Originally discovered… Read More »
Scientists using the Euclid space telescope have discovered a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars drifting within a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the universe. Torn away from their home galaxy, these orphan stars fill the space between the Perseus cluster’s galaxies with ghostly blue light. This so-called “intra-cluster”… Read More »
At first glance, the image doesn’t look like much: a few patches of bright yellow stars among fainter white stars. There is a spot in the middle that looks like a collection of stars. But zooming in reveals a completely different story. This blob is not stars at all, but dozens upon dozens of galaxies.… Read More »
A mind-boggling number of glowing galaxies, a purple and orange chamber of stars and a spiral galaxy that resembles the Milky Way: new images emerged from Europe’s Euclid space telescope on Thursday. HE second set of pictures It has been published by the European Space Agency since Euclid launched its first mission last year to… Read More »
two supernovaeS It could be vital in revealing the expansion rate of the universe in a galaxy, and in a galaxy so distant that we see it as it was 10 billion years ago. This is a measurement that has created some tension in the scientific community. The galaxy and two supernovae were imaged by… Read More »