Galaxies
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to Map Billions of Galaxies
Launched on Sunday, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will survey the sky with a field of view 200 times greater than Hubble's infrared capabilities, promising to map a billion galaxies and dis
Euclid telescope maps 60 million stars in Milky Way's heart
The European Space Agency's Euclid telescope has just unveiled an image of the Milky Way's central bulge containing over 60 million stars, including 51 known planetary systems, a scale previously unse
Black Eye Galaxy Messier 64 gas spins both ways
In the Black Eye Galaxy, Messier 64, gas in its outer reaches spins in the exact opposite direction to its inner core—a cosmic anomaly first observed in 2026.
Large Magellanic Cloud rips apart its neighbor galaxy at high speed
Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud are currently accelerating outward at an average speed of 17 kilometers per second, a direct consequence of its larger neighbor's gravitational pull, according to E
M88 Galaxy's Future Fades in Virgo Cluster Journey
Gravitational forces already tear at the spiral galaxy Messier 88, compressing its gas disk and stripping away vital material.
Hubble telescope spots faint irregular galaxy ESO 490-017
The Hubble Space Telescope recently identified Candidate Dark Galaxy-2, a galaxy appearing almost entirely dominated by dark matter.