The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

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Three ultra-massive galaxies from the early universe, named "red monsters" show star formation happened faster than believed.

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...

An international team of astronomers on Thursday unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy – a cosmic body known as Sagittarius A*.

Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula - a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light - ...

"This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that ... it features tens of millions of stars within the Milky Way and around 14 million distant galaxies beyond our ...

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

“This stunning image is the first piece of a map that in six years will reveal more than one third of the sky,” a Euclid project scientist at ESA, Valeria Pettorino, said in a press release. “This is ...