We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.
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The dazzling spiral galaxy in this Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, located about 60 million light-years away in the ...
It is a spiral galaxy like our own, the Milky Way. Zhúlóng also shows a clear division between its central concentration of stars, known as the bulge, and the disk where the spiral arms are located.
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
It is clear that human beings, throughout history, have always had a constant curiosity to discover everything that happens ...
Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...
NASA released six stunning images from the Hubble Telescope showcasing interacting galaxies, including the chaotic beauty of merg ...
Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.
The elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large galaxy cluster to Earth, the Virgo Cluster. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...
The Priority Mail stamp features Webb’s depiction of spiral galaxy NGC 628. This galaxy is located about 32 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The depiction of NGC 628 itself ...
Wherever we look in the Universe we see spiral galaxies. 70% of all galaxies today have this spiral structure that show up in their stars and their gas that’s used to make more s ...