In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

The collaboration measured the polarization of light from the cosmic microwave background (CMB ... other galaxies, and galaxy clusters. In a sense, it's tracing the evolution of the universe ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope. This rare cosmic overlap forms a swirling, colorful image ...

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration involving over 70 institutions.

with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet “the cosmic tornado.” But it was too fuzzy to make out the background galaxy and other details. Webb is the largest and most powerful observatory ...

A powerful “Cosmic Tornado” has received ... According to NASA, it’s a spiral galaxy located against a “sea of distant background galaxies.”. A closer look showcases a blue “prominent ...

After nearly tripling the researchers’ collection of galaxy coordinates ... bumping into other particles (this light is the cosmic microwave background radiation that we can still see today).