Record-breaking Phoenix galaxy cluster, by the numbers. By Mike Wall. August 16, 2012 / 10:30 AM EDT / Space.com (SPACE.com) The faraway ...

"Previous to the Phoenix, the most star-forming galaxy cluster in the universe had about 100 stars per year, and even that was an outlier. The typical number is one-ish," McDonald says.

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

Here's a by-the-numbers look at the Phoenix cluster, which researchers say could yield key insights into how galaxies and colossal clusters evolve: ...

An image of galaxy cluster Abell 1033 and the electron cloud known as the "radio phoenix." (Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Hamburg/F. de Gasperin et al; Optical: SDSS; Radio: NRAO/VLA) ...

Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the galaxy at the heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster, located 5.9 billion light-years away in the constellation Phoenix.

Newly-discovered 'Phoenix' system produces 740 new stars a year Unnamed galaxy produces more stars in a day than the Milky Way spawns in a year Thought to be about 6 billion years old, and has ...

The Phoenix cluster is located about 5.7 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Phoenix and has a mass roughly 2,500 trillion times that of the sun.

In the galaxy cluster Abell 2877, located in the southern sky about 300 million light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered one such jellyfish. Visible only in a narrow band of radio light ...

The faraway Phoenix galaxy cluster may be the biggest and brightest such structure ever discovered, and it's forming stars at an unprecedented rate, scientists announced today (Aug. 15).

Here's a by-the-numbers look at the Phoenix cluster — formally known as SPT-CLJ2344-4243 — which researchers say could yield key insights into how galaxies and colossal clusters evolve:. 2.5 ...