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Dishes of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico line up beneath the starry sky. Radio waves are just one of the numerous signals from space that comprise the soundtrack of the cosmos.

Scientists search for the soundtrack of the universe

An artist’s representation of one of brightest explosions ever seen in space, an LFBOT. Called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT). Credit: NASA, ESA, NSF's NOIRLab, Mark Garlick , Mahdi Zamani

Exotic Objects, Science

‘Tasmanian devil’ rises from slumber with brilliant bursts of light

Deep-Sky Objects, Galaxies, Science

The El Gordo galaxy cluster moves faster than you might think

It may not look like much, but capturing photons from the distant quasar 3C 273 is one of the most awe-inspiring observations you can make with a small telescope.

Deep-Sky Objects

Target acquired: Observe Quasar 3C 273

This panchromatic view of galaxy cluster MACS0416 was created by combining infrared observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with visible-light data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Jose M. Diego (IFCA), Jordan C. J. D'Silva (UWA), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Jake Summers (ASU), Rogier Windhorst (ASU), Haojing Yan (University of Missouri)

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science

Webb and Hubble telescopes unite to image flashy clash of galaxies cluster

The Euclid image of the Horsehead Nebula, an iconic target for backyard astrophotographers and space telescopes alike. Credit: ESA.

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science, Stars

Euclid telescope releases first awe-inspiring images in dark universe hunt

This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang. This object is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe.

What we’ve learned in 60 years of studying quasars

A galactic collision of two galaxies which began more than 300 million years ago, NGC 520 is actually made up of two disk galaxies which will eventually merge together to form one larger, more massive system. NGC 520 was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 and is one of the largest and brightest galaxies in the Siena Galaxy Atlas.

Siena Galaxy Atlas helps categorize nearby galaxies

JWST Images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: mages of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/I. Labbe

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science, Stars

Those puzzling JWST images can be explained by ‘bursty’ star formation

Gas giants like Jupiter, shown here, could be more common than previously thought.

Exoplanets, Planets, Science, Solar System

Why a solar system like ours might be more common than we think

Galaxies, Milky Way

Andromeda’s collision course with the Milky Way: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

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Galaxies, Stars

JWST finds carbon-rich dust grains earlier than expected