Galaxy

“We really wanted to be a place for our community,” said co-owner Jevonna Morris of the inspiration behind The Galaxy Coffee. COLUMBUS, Ohio — After years of planning and preparation, Columbus’ first queer-owned…

The Hubble Space Telescope has been taking an extended look at a spiral galaxy to help astronomers make improvements in measuring vast cosmic distances.NGC 7038 is an enormous, oval-shaped spiral galaxy with four blue spiral arms…

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Tumble into the Cartwheel Galaxy. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) The Cartwheel Galaxy is the latest distant galaxy to get the Webb telescope treatment. The Webb telescope is the most powerful telescope ever built,…

More than 5,000 planets exist beyond our solar system, according to NASA, and this week astronomers announced they may have discovered the youngest one so far.Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in…

Scientists on Tuesday published the latest images from NASA’s triumphant James Webb Space Telescope. The newest release documents the Cartwheel galaxy, which is about 500 million light-years from our planet and is aptly named for its…

"We're potentially looking at the most distant starlight that anyone has ever seen," Rohan Naidu of Harvard Center for Astrophysics says of GLASS-z13, which…

A team of astronomers have used the ALMA telescope to find a slowly-rotating galaxy in the early Universe. That galaxy is the youngest ever found with a measured rotation, and it's much slower than present-day galaxies.  All galaxies…

Thirsty?AlcoholicScientists say they've found alcohol molecules in space — though, unfortunately, it's not the type that gets you drunk.A team from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany have discovered a cloud of…

An amateur astronomer’s keen eyes led to the discovery of an unusual ultra-faint dwarf galaxy on the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, Acknowledgment: Image processing: T.A.…