A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in ...

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the early universe. Credit:ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

Black holes, cosmic entities with immense gravity, trap everything, even light. These form from collapsed massive stars, ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

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Astronomers discovered the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, located 200,000 light-years away, has stars moving in two opposing ...