So, when we look at a galaxy from afar, the bright giant stars outshine all the others, highlighting the appearance of the spiral arms. It's relatively easy for astronomers to map the spiral ...

These data provided Weisz and his team the first comprehensive 3D map of our galactic ... that half of Andromeda's dwarf galaxies orbit in a unique, flat plane, all moving in the same direction ...

Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University have created an interactive map of the universe, charting the positions and colors of 200,000 galaxies stretching from here to the very edge of the ...

Nasa’s newest space telescope rocketed towards orbit to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope has discovered 102 new colors in distant galaxies, revealing hidden chemical signatures and ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes ... For SPHEREx, this cone is an enabler, allowing astronomers to map hundreds of millions of galaxies to study inflation, a cosmological theory that ...

What has surprised scientists is that these dwarf galaxies are not evenly distributed. Of the 37 observed dwarf galaxies, all but one are located on one side of Andromeda—specifically, the side facing ...

but rather moving around the galaxy randomly in all directions. As they slowly lose energy, the dwarf galaxies merge into the larger galaxy." That problem, identified by earlier studies ...

The ring of light, known as an Einstein Ring, was discovered in September 2023 by Euclid, a space telescope on a six-year mission to map out the cosmos by observing billions of galaxies.