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The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

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New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, complex observatory that studies the universe in infrared light, which is ...

Everything we thought we knew about galaxy formation was thrown into question in the 1990s after astronomers discovered two distant, massive galaxies ...

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The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud, or LMC and SMC, are two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way galaxy ... you might even be able to see some blueish stars in its spiral arms. The ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

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The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...