NASA’s SPHEREx mission, launching in February 2025, aims to map the universe in 3D, uncovering insights into galaxies.

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that not only existed around 600 million years after the big bang, but is also similar to what our Milky Way ...

More information: Yao-Yuan Mao et al, The SAGA Survey. III. A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way–mass Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal (2024).DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad64c4 Marla ...

And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—show a galaxy that glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a distant galaxy which gives a peek at what the Milky Way might have looked like in its infancy. The galaxy, named Firefly Sparkle due to its ...

Astronomers have made a startling discovery of cosmic channels that connect our solar system to far-off stars, reshaping our ...

This discovery is particularly significant as the galaxy's mass closely resembles what the Milky Way's mass might have been during the same stage of its formation. This galaxy, which is named the ...

SAGA has found several hundred of these satellite galaxies orbiting 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies. "The Milky Way has been an incredible physics laboratory, including for the physics of galaxy formation ...

Listen to Story Firefly Sparkle's mass aligns with expectations for a precursor to our own galaxy It is 10,000 times less massive than the current Milky Way. The name "Firefly Sparkle" was inspired by ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a groundbreaking discovery, identifying a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang. This finding provides a rare opportunity to ...

11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks ... the Most Detailed Infrared Map Ever of Our Milky Way Sep. 26, 2024 ...