New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict traditional theories about early galaxy formation, revealing ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...

One of the most famous galaxies in the collection is the so-called "Southern Pinwheel" galaxy, also known as NGC 5236 or M83. It is located around 15 million light-years away. "We strive to ...

However, it wasn’t until the work of Edwin Hubble (for which the famous telescope is named) that astronomers realized objects like Messier 83 are actually other galaxies outside the Milky Way.

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

Two satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and ... astronomical observations have been made there. Perhaps the most famous was in the Large Magellanic Cloud, where in 1987, astronomers ...

Light from the very distant and ancient galaxies is shifted towards very long wavelengths by the famous red shift of the expanding universe, as explored by Edwin P. Hubble himself. Light that was ...

As it turns out there are many fewer galaxies than astronomers supposed. The leftover radiation from the Big Bang—a weak afterglow—is termed the cosmic microwave background (CMB). A famous yet ...