Experts have unveiled the most detailed images yet of the universe’s infancy, capturing light that traveled for more than 13 billion years.

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Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

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Webb captured an Einstein ring formed by a distant galaxy's light bending around a closer one. This rare alignment magnifies ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...

Scientists at NASA revealed evidence that demonstrates that M87 contains a supermassive black hole located at its center.

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The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...