Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have created a detailed map of the cold cosmic gas in the Milky Way's core. This revealing map shows how gas forms stars and highlights activity around the ...

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Astronomers have identified the most powerful and distant microwave laser, or maser, ever observed, originating from two ...

A newly discovered galaxy with glowing star-filled "tentacles" is rewriting parts of cosmic history.

When you gaze up at the night sky, you’re looking back in time. Light from the stars takes years, sometimes millennia, to ...

Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...

Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery: a faint object nearly invisible is holding a collection of star clusters ...

Astronomers have gotten a rare close-up look at a galaxy from the early universe and found it’s chock full of star forming activity in a way no one expected. Nicknamed “Cosmic Grapes,” this ancient ...

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