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Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown…
New observations from Webb combined with multiple observations from Hubble prove that Terzan 5 is a self-contained, self-enriching stellar system…
This image of bulge fossil fragment Terzan 5 was captured by the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes. Webb’s data…
Zoom in to Terzan 5, a star cluster that lies within the crowded central region of our Milky Way galaxy…
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…
This video shows a zoom into the Milky Way’s galactic bulge near the galactic center. As it zooms in, the…
