The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

Scientists traced star-forming gas clouds in a nearby lenticular galaxy, NGC 1387, offering new insight into early-type ...

When you gaze up at the night sky, you’re looking back in time. Light from the stars takes years, sometimes millennia, to reach your eyes. Now imagine seeing light that’s been traveling for 8.5 ...

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It's 7 billion years ago, and the universe's heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers have found clues in the form of a ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it the oldest-known dead galaxy. This was during one of the most intense ...