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Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center . Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman , RealSpace ,...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the compact green pea galaxy J0925+1403. The diameter of the galaxy is approximately 6,000 light years, and it is about twenty times...

At nearly the beginning of time, the universe was shrouded in darkness. Then, early galaxies produced bright, hot stars that leaked brilliant light intergalactic space through small channels, turning the...

Seven to 10 billion years ago, a bunch of galaxies fell in with a bad crowd at the Coma cluster — a galactic group comprising thousands of their ilk. That...

Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are. The Earth spinning around on its axis once gives us the length of...

Previously, planets have been detected only in the Milky Way galaxy. Now for the first time, astrophysicists at University of Oklahoma have discovered a population of planets beyond the Milky...

While looking back to a time soon after the Big Bang, astronomers have now been able to observ ‘newborns’ – early galaxies as they appeared nearly 13 billion years ago...

Astronomers – working with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – discovered 72 new galaxies in the southern constellation of Fornax (The Furnace). The objects have...

A gigantic collision of several galaxy clusters, each containing hundreds of galaxies, has produced a spectacular panorama of shocks and tremendous amounts of energy. The collisions generated shock waves that...

A massive,” dead” galaxy puzzles astronomer who now wonder what happened to all the stars. The case of galaxy MACS 2129-1 is interesting because it challenges our theories of galaxy...