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Our Milky Way's 'Zone of Avoidance' holds a galaxy supercluster with 30,000 trillion times the sun's mass
The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the attention of local galaxies.
Why were galaxies so active in the early universe? We may be getting close to the answer
Early galaxies were star-forming machines, gobbling up gas and spitting out stars with a furious intensity. A new model helps explain why things were so different back then.
The cosmos wears a galactic sombrero | Space photo of the day for April 29, 2026
The Sombrero galaxy's name fits perfectly.
Help scientists find spacetime warps in these Euclid Space Telescope images
A new citizen science project invites the public to scan never-before-seen images from the Euclid Space Telescope in search of galaxies bending spacetime.
Backyard snapshot delivers stunning galaxy image | Space photo of the day for April 27, 2026
The Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy, stuns in this ambassador's picture.
'Dark subhaloes' may explain why galaxies seem to form pre-determined shapes
Our universe is full of mysteries, but few are as perplexing as the dark, tiny galaxies that hover around larger ones like the Milky Way.
Synthetic universe allows you to 'see and hear' galaxies evolving from the dawn of time (video)
Scientists have used a synthetic universe to observe how the first galaxies evolved and grew. In fact, it is so close to the real thing that it's tricking some astronomers.
Hubble Space Telescope spots a mesmerizing spiral galaxy | Space photo of the day for April 17, 2026
Hubble images never fail to amaze.
Scientists use rare 'Einstein Cross' to learn about young galaxy with surprisingly old stars
"The discovery of this exceptional object has allowed us to accurately study the nature of the stars at the center of an elliptical galaxy in a remote era of the universe, when the galaxy was still young."
