The galaxy, called IC 1954, is located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium, The Clock. It boasts a bright central bar and two large, winding spiral arms ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is only three years into operations, yet it keeps slipping the cosmic rug out from under ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered within the heart of a nearby spiral ... light spectrum indicates that it is billions of light years away. The finding poses a cosmic puzzle ...

Having seen and analysed many nearby type Ia supernovae, astronomers know that they age in a reliable way, making them the nearest thing to a cosmic clock ... look at the spectrum of light ...

India has uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that challenges our understanding of cosmic evolution. The findings, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...

Scientists long have used the "molecular clock" to establish when species ... as well as in the spectrum of cosmic rays reaching the Earth, that one or more supernovae about 300 light years ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been taking an extended look at a spiral galaxy to help astronomers make improvements in measuring vast cosmic distances. NGC 7038 is an enormous, oval-shaped spiral ...

Spiral galaxy IC 1954 is located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium, The Clock. | Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team ...