A Galaxy That Looks Like a Jellyfish Is Helping Scientists See 8.5 Billion Years Into the Past

When you gaze up at the night sky, you’re looking back in time. Light from the stars takes years, sometimes millennia, to ...
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Astronomers Spotted a Galaxy That’s Made Up Almost Entirely of Dark Matter

“The Euclid data clearly confirm the presence of the extremely faint, diffuse light of CDG-2, revealing the galaxy behind the ...

Nearly invisible galaxy may be built mostly of dark matter, Hubble finds

A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it looks like nothing special. No ...
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Huge galaxy cluster is wrapped in a cocoon 20 million light-years wide, NASA space telescope finds

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million ...

Hubble Just Revealed a ‘Dark Galaxy’ Hiding in Plain Sight. Here’s What We Know

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 Nearly Invisible Galaxy Was Found 300 Million Light-Years Away. Here’s How

A team of astronomers has identified an extremely faint galaxy called CDG-2, located roughly 300 million light-years from Earth, where an estimated 99% of its total mass is made of invisible dark ...

Why Does This Galaxy Have Tentacles? Deep Space Mystery Stuns Astronomers

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...

Hubble Telescope Just Found a ‘Dark Galaxy’ That’s 99% Invisible. Here’s How

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 ...

New ‘Jellyfish Galaxy' Discovered With Star-Birthing ‘Tentacles' Trailing Behind It

A rare jellyfish galaxy discovered by JWST is offering clues about how galaxies died in the early universe.
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Study suggests more normal matter in galaxy clusters than previously estimated

Study led by University of Bonn finds galaxy clusters contain about twice as much normal matter as previously estimated, based on recalculated stellar populations and survey data.
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These Galactic Clusters Smashed Into Each Other. Giant Bow Shocks Suggest They're About To Go For Round 2

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