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by Ben Whedon   Ahead of a prospective indictment of former President Donald Trump, legal experts and elected officeholders are warning that such an unprecedented move may spur a dangerous escalation spiral of retributive political…

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…

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172. This Hubble image shows NGC 7172, an active spiral galaxy some 110.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Piscis…

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of the spiral galaxy UGC 9391. This Hubble image shows UGC 9391, a spiral galaxy some 120 million light-years away in the constellation…

Using data from ESA’s Gaia satellite and archival spectroscopic surveys, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way disk substructure at distances over 10,000 parsecs (32,616 light-years). The resulting map reveals the existence of many…

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team The luminous heart of the galaxy M61 dominates this image, framed by its winding spiral arms threaded with dark…