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The Milky Way’s galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets,…
This VISTA VVV Survey image shows the galactic bulge near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s…
A follow-up observation by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a region containing a microlensing event captured by the Optical Gravitational…
This graphic illustrates a microlensing event, which occurs when the light from a distant object warps as a mass, such…
A team of astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived data from…
A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy cluster in…
The Bullet Cluster is made up of two massive galaxy clusters. Webb shows a vast number of galaxies and foreground…
Webb captured the central region of the Bullet Cluster with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), revealing many more distant galaxies and…
Composite image of the Bullet Cluster combines near-infrared light from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray…
