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A dense web of thin blue-purple filaments spans the entire frame, threading through deep red and maroon voids to converge on a blazing central cluster of orange, yellow, and white gas. Scattered across the field, smaller orange and gold clumps glow at the intersections of the filaments. The overall effect resembles a three-dimensional cosmic spiderweb

Cosmology, Features

Untangling the cosmic web

A grid of eight distinct square panels are arranged in two rows of four against a black background. Each panel shows a bright, yellowish-orange core surrounded by thin, glowing blue rings or partial arcs that encircle the central light. Text labels containing long strings of numbers appear at the bottom of each square panel, with a larger informational title section situated underneath the entire grid.

Cosmology, Today in the History of Astronomy

June 9, 1988: First image of an Einstein ring

A 360-degree panoramic view of the Milky Way galaxy stretching horizontally across the frame as a bright, glowing band of stars and dust. The galactic center is visible near the middle, dense with warm orange and brown dust lanes and bright star clusters. The surrounding sky is deep black, dotted with individual stars and a few faint nebulae and satellite galaxies visible in the lower portion of the image.

Cosmology, Galaxies

Giant supercluster discovered hiding behind the Milky Way

Did time move slower right after the Big Bang?

Abell 1689

When gravitational lensing occurs, can we see the object doing the lensing?

Dark Energy Survey releases Year 6 results

Cosmology, Stars

Why not finding stars has astronomers on Cloud-9

Cosmology, Exotic Objects, Science

‘Monster Stars’ existed in the early universe

Cosmic beliefs may have driven earliest Maya monument, study suggests

Cosmology, Science

Are dark matter and dark energy only an illusion?

How is the total mass of the universe calculated?

Scientists seek to discover what came before the Big Bang