In a cradle of stars having seen the ingredients of the planets
In a cradle of stars identified in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way, the basic ingredients from which planets
In a cradle of stars identified in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way, the basic ingredients from which planets
Discovered the oldest cluster of galaxies known so far, formed when the universe was very young, about 650 million years after the Big Bang. The
The images of the oldest galaxies ever seen have been captured by the James Webb space telescope: there are four of them and their ‘date
A colossal black hole has been discovered: it has a mass 32.7 billion times that of our Sun and is located 2.7 billion light-years from
The birth of a cluster of galaxies has been observed for the first time, the one associated with the Spiderweb galaxy, so called because it
There may soon be more satellites than stars in the night sky, which is why astronomers are determined to battle light pollution, which makes it
One of the very first supermassive black holes born only 750 million years after the Big Bang, i.e. about 5% of the current age of
Six giant galaxies in the early universe, formed when it was only 500-700 million years old, are wreaking havoc among researchers, undermining current theories about
A dormant supermassive black hole, therefore completely invisible, has probably been captured by telescopes in the midst of the ‘escape’ from its galaxy: the decisive
Photographed one of the brightest objects ever seen so far in the universe: it is a quasar, literally a ‘quasi-stellar radio source’, i.e. a galaxy