Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching approximately 1.3 billion light-years long—more than ...

According to the most widely accepted cosmological model, the first stars and galaxies began forming around 300-400 million ...

ESA’s Euclid mission mapped 26 million galaxies, revealing galaxy shapes, cosmic structures, and gravitational lenses ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

The galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began within the universe’s first two billion years of ...

And one tool that astronomers can use for such work is the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the world's largest visible-light ...

galaxy collisions occur. One such collision can be seen in the lower right of the image of the Virgo cluster below. Galaxies at the center of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies The largest nearby ...

Using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and additional data from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), researchers found a vast amount of molecular gas in a ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have published the cosmological results of the first ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a massive and hot galaxy cluster known as PLCKG287.0+32.9 (or PLCKG287 for short). Results of the observational campaign ...

This week’s small-telescope target is globular cluster NGC 2808 in the ... large-scope object is elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, which lies in the sky’s largest constellation, Hydra the Water ...