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Hubble space telescope of the merging star clusters at the heart of the Tarantula Nebula, the … [+] largest star-forming…

The scale of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (blue box) versus the field of view of the Nancy Roman ……

By Leah Crane An illustration of a quasar, which reside at the centre of some galaxies Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy A…

Long after the last star in the Universe has burned out, the final black hole will decay away. Even ……

In a hypertorus model of the Universe, motion in a straight line will return you to your original … [+]…

This artist’s impression represents small-scale concentrations of dark matter in the galaxy cluster … [+] MACSJ 1206. Astronomers measured the…

While the brightest stars dominate any astronomical image, they are far outnumbered by the fainter, … [+] lower-mass, cooler stars…

The theory of cosmic inflation predicts a multiverse: an enormous number of Universes that … [+] experience hot Big Bangs,…

When most of us picture an atom, we think about a small nucleus made of protons and neutrons orbited ……

This Nov. 16, 2017 image made with the Hubble Space Telescope shows the diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, … [+] lighter…