Throughout the annals of astronomy’s history, the celestial canvas was predominantly adorned with stars. These luminous entities dazzled us both individually and clustered in nebulous… Read More »Galactic breathing: How galaxies recycle gas and form stars
Observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) challenge current cosmological models designed to explain the early universe. These prevailing models, which are based… Read More »New model proposes universe is 26.7 billion years old, not 13.8 billion
Magnetic fields are abundant throughout the universe, yet they pose significant challenges for researchers to study. Unlike other observable phenomena, magnetic fields do not emit… Read More »Stanford astrophysicists discover starkly different magnetic fields in galaxies
Dark energy, the mysterious force responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe, remains a puzzle in cosmology. While the prevailing hypothesis suggests that dark… Read More »Dark energy may evolve in time, connected to dark matter by new force of nature
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have undertaken a groundbreaking study in which they reconstructed how alien astronomers would perceive our Milky Way… Read More »Milky Way’s chemical composition compared to other galaxies