The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Milky Way's Core: A striking X-ray image reveals superheated gas and magnetic fields at the heart of our galaxy. NGC 4826: Also called the "Black Eye Galaxy," this captivating spiral galaxy lies ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark ...

Euclid telescope has located a rare hoop of light called an "Einstein ring" in a nearby elliptical galaxy. Though the galaxy has been on humans' radar for 140 years, its halo is new—and it has a lot ...

Discover the stunning beauty of star clusters ... images showcase the universe’s incredible cosmic wonders. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a marvel of modern science, explores distant ...

Astronomers have captured a breathtaking new image of thousands of galaxies, thanks to the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation's Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

Einstein rings help scientists study dark matter and cosmic expansion. Euclid will find thousands more lenses to map the ...

A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...

of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy ... The image below shows the complete mosaic. Beneath that is a selection of intriguing sights within the mosaic, labeled A through E: A: Star clusters in ...

Caldwell 71: This Hubble image of a loosely bound collections of stars reveals a portion of the open cluster Caldwell 71. Most open clusters reside in the arms of spiral galaxies, and their stars ...