Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, published in Nature Astronomy today, argues that the enormous star WOH G64 has transitioned from a red supergiant to a rare yellow hypergiant in what may ...

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A newly discovered galaxy with glowing star-filled "tentacles" is rewriting parts of cosmic history.

Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s Euclid space observatory, and Hawaii’s Subaru Telescope, the researchers discovered faint light emitting around the clusters. That light was clear ...

A rare jellyfish galaxy discovered by JWST is offering clues about how galaxies died in the early universe.

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

At first glance, it seems impossible: Hubble Space Telescope can capture galaxies billions of light-years away, yet Pluto often appears as little more than a fuzzy disk. The reason comes down to ...

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