Jan 10, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected three high-redshift galaxies with remarkable similarities to ‘green pea’...

Jan 5, 2023 by News Staff

Intracluster light is diffuse light from stars that are gravitationally bound not to individual member galaxies, but to the halo of galaxy clusters. In...

Nov 17, 2022 by News Staff

The two newfound galaxies, dubbed GLASS-z12 and GLASS-z10, existed approximately 350 and 450 million years after the Big Bang. GLASS-z12 (redshift of 12.5)...

Nov 9, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered core-collapse supernova, or Type II supernova, seen at a lookback time of approximately 11.5 billion years, is strongly lensed by...

Oct 26, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers say we may be witnessing a merger of two small galaxies just 400 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy cluster MACS0647 acts as a cosmic...

Sep 1, 2022 by Natali Anderson

The newly-discovered blue supergiant is much hotter than the Sun, and existed when the Universe was about 2.6 billion years old. Left panel shows the color...

Aug 26, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Earendel is a B-type giant star, a luminous blue variable star, or even a binary system with an extremely hot primary member, according to new observations...

Aug 22, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers from the University of Cambridge and elsewhere have analyzed the spectroscopic and photometric data from three instruments (NIRSpec, NIRISS...

Aug 19, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a faint, distant, and cold brown dwarf in the images of the massive galaxy cluster...

Aug 15, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have spotted ancient globular clusters around a remarkable galaxy that is strongly gravitationally...

Aug 9, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Earendel emitted its light approximately 900 million years after the Big Bang. This Webb/NIRCam image shows Earendel (center), the most distant star ever...

Aug 2, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and elsewhere have analyzed an image taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope of...

Jul 18, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The striking new photo from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the gravitationally lensed galaxy SGAS J143845+145407. This Hubble image shows...

Jul 12, 2022 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope mission today released its first full-color scientific images and spectroscopic data. An artist’s impression...

Jul 12, 2022 by News Staff

Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, the new image shows the massive galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327. This Webb image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327....

Jun 20, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the massive and rich galaxy cluster Abell 1351. This Hubble image shows the massive...

Jun 9, 2022 by News Staff

Abell 2146 is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located approximately 2.8 billion light-years away in the constellation of Draco. In this composite image...

May 16, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of UGC 10143, a giant elliptical galaxy located in the center...

Mar 31, 2022 by News Staff

Designated WHL0137-LS and nicknamed Earendel, the newly-detected star emitted its light around 900 million years after the Big Bang. Earendel (arrow) is...

Dec 29, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a quartet of pronounced X-ray cavities in RBS 797, a cluster of galaxies located about...