Some galaxies hit a point in their lives when their star formation is snuffed out, and they become “quenched.” Quenched galaxies in the distant past appear to be much smaller than the quenched ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has once again dazzled scientists and stargazers alike with a striking image of a galaxy once thought lost to the cosmos. This galaxy, NGC 4535, located in the Virgo ...

Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to the University of California (UC), Irvine, led ...

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Astronomers have discovered the most distant cluster of galaxies ever observed and at the earliest stage of development yet witnessed. The proto-cluster - Cosmos-Aztec3 - is a burgeoning galactic ...

Imagine peering into a nursery and seeing, among the cooing babies, a few that look like grown men. That’s the startling situation that astronomers have stumbled upon as they’ve looked deep into space ...

Astronomers say they have discovered a hot, star-popping galaxy that is far, far away — farther than any previously detected, from a time when the universe was a mere toddler of about 400 million ...

(CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy, ...

Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to UC Irvine-led research conducted on the W. M.