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Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

The team behind the Rubin Observatory just couldn't resist waiting until morning to share the first pictures from the world's ...

The universe is around 13.8 billion years old, so the presence of 13 billion-year-old stars in our galaxy's thin disk means that the disk must have formed in the first billion years following the ...

Ancient galaxy: Galaxy SPT0615-JD, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as it existed 13.3 billion years ago, may contain some of the first generation of stars that formed in the universe.

However, Sgr B2 appears to be the exception. Although its rate of present massive star formation is unusually low, like the ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rare glimpse into how stars can endure — at least briefly ...

A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...

After surveying 5 million stars throughout our galaxy, researchers identified seven that may host Dyson spheres: super-advanced alien megastructures. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, ...

More than a dozen “hypervelocity” stars — which zip across the galaxy at more than 900,000 miles per hour, twice the speed of our sun — have been discovered so far. But all of them are ...