Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have captured the most detailed image yet of the merging cluster Abell 2256.
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Due to the gravitational lensing technique, a team of astronomers led by Dr Patrick Kelly from the University of California, Berkeley, has observed four...
An unusual galaxy cluster called SDSS J1038+4849 appears to smile at us in a newly-released image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).
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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have weighed the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster – the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant Universe.
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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory have captured a stunning new image of the bizarre spiral galaxy ESO 137-001.
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An enormous black hole located in the center of the galaxy cluster RX J1532.9+3021 (RX J1532 for short) is one of the most powerful black holes in the...
A team of scientists using the Arecibo radio telescope measured the hydrogen content of 250 galaxies located in different environments to show that galaxies...
New, deep observations of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 have revealed that it hosts the largest population of globular clusters ever found.
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European astronomers using ESA’s Planck Space Telescope have detected a 10 million light-years long bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters,...
A large international team of over 80 astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the South Pole Telescope, and eight other world-class observatories,...
