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Hubble Captures Galaxy With Perpendicular Inner Disk

The misaligned central disk likely formed from swallowed gas or a minor merger and could show how outside material fuels galaxies' centers.

Eccentric Encounter Built Massive Protobinary, 3D Orbit Shows

Webb Stacking Reveals Tiny Galaxies Hosting Bright, Growing Black Holes

JWST Spectra Reveal Hidden Low-Mass Stars That Boost Early Galaxies' Masses

Milky Way Absorbed a Dwarf Galaxy About 11.8 Billion Years Ago

JWST Identifies a Candidate ‘Black Hole Star’ at Cosmic Dawn

Euclid Releases Unprecedented High-Resolution Mosaic of the Milky Way Bulge

Six Young Red Dwarfs Show Signs of Swallowing Earth‑Sized Rocky Planets

Hubble Marks 36 Years With Sharper Trifid Nebula Portrait That Shows Change

Astronomers Identify Most Chemically Pristine Star Ever Observed

Astronomers Find Most Pristine Star Yet From the Large Magellanic Cloud

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

Gaia Finds Thousands of Solar Twins, Tying the Sun to a Mass Migration Across the Milky Way

TESS Reveals Most Compact 3+1 Quadruple-Star System Yet

Webb Links Protostellar Bursts to Crystal Formation and Outflows in EC 53

JWST Sees Protostar Forge Crystals in Outbursts, Then Hurl Them to Comet-Building Zones

New Images and Holiday Sky Guides Spotlight the Christmas Tree Cluster

Pleiades Recast as Core of a Vast 'Greater Pleiades' Stellar Family

ESO Telescope Reveals Bat-Shaped Stellar Nursery 10,000 Light-Years Away

Astronomers Detect Lowest-Mass Dark Object Yet via Subtle Gravitational Lens Signal