“The Euclid data clearly confirm the presence of the extremely faint, diffuse light of CDG-2, revealing the galaxy behind the ...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by ...
A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it looks like nothing special. No ...
You know that feeling when you find something hiding right where you've been looking all along? Astronomers just had that moment on a cosmic scale. A galaxy so faint, so nearly invisible that no one ...
It's 99 percent dark matter, a new study explains.
In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies ...
Called CDG-2, this newly identified “ghostly” galaxy may be one of the most dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered, with a staggering 99% of its total mass made up of dark matter — a ...
Astronomers used AI to search 35 years of Hubble data and discovered over 1,300 rare cosmic anomalies hidden in plain sight.
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s Euclid space observatory, and Hawaii’s Subaru Telescope, the researchers discovered faint light emitting around the clusters. That light was clear ...
A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the Hubble Space Telescope's line of sight.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of galaxies LEDA 48062 and UGC 8603. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R.
According to researchers, approximately 99 percent of this galaxy's total mass is dark matter.