"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense within the context of a major merger." ...

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

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By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

As their name suggests, protoclusters like SPT2349-56 are the progenitors of galaxy clusters, some of the largest cosmic structures we see in the present-day universe. Fully grown galaxy clusters ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

A composite of galaxy cluster known as MACS0416 created using ... Myanmar and Thailand 'The universe has thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten dark energy ...