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How do spiral galaxies get 'feathers'? All it takes is a little gravity
Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...
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Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
European telescope studying the dark universe unveils new images of distant galaxies
A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.
NASA launches its newest space telescope, set to conduct all-sky survey, map millions of galaxies
The NASA SPHEREx telescope will use infrared instruments and a broad field of view to map the entire sky. It will observe the ...
Ars Technica8d
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
And those galaxies trace out the initial fluctuations set up by inflation." SPHEREx's telescope will also collect the combined light emitted by all galaxies, all the way back to the cosmic dawn ...