A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...
Q How many galaxies are in the universe? — Gus Powvens, Madison, Wis. A Jim Lattis, director of the UW Space Place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in ...
An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...
A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...
A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...
A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...
Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in both size and composition. Some contain hundreds of millions of stars while the largest galaxies can contain trillions of stars. And while it’s not entirely ...