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The Universe’s Largest Structures: What Are Galaxy Groups, Clusters and Superclusters?
A supercluster is usually composed of hundreds or even thousands of clusters of galaxies, and these clusters are ...
Science Daily7h
Detailed map of dust in the Milky Way
Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...
The New Yorker22h
The Detention of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Flagrant Assault on Free Speech
Whatever legal rationale the Trump Administration cooks up, deporting protesters for things they say is wildly ...
Ever-Growing USA on MSN1d
Massive Black Hole Defies Physics: Discovery Challenges Our Understanding of Galaxy Formation
Scientists have discovered an extraordinarily massive black hole weighing an astounding 36 billion solar masses, challenging ...
This Ancient Galaxy’s Unexpected Chemistry Could Rewrite the Story of the Universe
Astronomers from the University of Arizona have uncovered astonishing details about a galaxy that existed when the universe ...
Shockingly Tiny Galaxy Near Andromeda Is Just One-Millionth the Size of the Milky Way
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
An 18-year-old won $250,000 for discovering over a million objects in space. Some could help unravel one of the universe's biggest mysteries.
Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...
The Press Democrat2d
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
NASA's newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed ...
Liftoff! NASA launches SPHEREx telescope — an infrared observatory that will help JWST solve the mysteries of the universe
NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution infrared snapshots, enabling astronomers to study some of the universe's biggest ...