This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

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A colossal cosmic filament, measuring 50 million light-years long, has been discovered spinning in deep space, astonishing ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

The filament is a part of the vast cosmic web composed primarily of dark matter and interspersed with lighter layers of ...

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Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million ...

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The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...