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Galaxies, vast collections of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity, are scattered across the immensity of…
Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new gallery released…
In new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to celebrate its fourth science anniversary, a familiar galaxy transforms into…
The Infinity Galaxy, the result of two colliding spiral galaxies, is composed of two rings of stars (seen as ovals…
Editor’s Note: This post highlights a combination of peer-reviewed results and data from Webb science in progress, which has not…
This image of the Infinity Galaxy from Webb’s NIRCam is overlayed with a contour map of data from the Very…
As far back as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy — then thought to be only a nebula —…
Arp 105 is a dazzling ongoing merger between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy drawn together by gravity, characterized…
