By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
But astronomers worry they may not be accounting for all the light inside galaxies that may be too tiny, too diffuse, or too far away for other telescopes to have detected. "SPHEREx is going to ...
In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...
It is not surprising that there are regions that are more densely populated by galaxies, and regions that are less populated.