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Webb Stares Deeply Into the Universe, Showing How Galaxies Assemble

The James Webb Space Telescope is delivering a deluge of images and data to eager scientists and other hungry-minded...

In a New Hubble Image, Dark Matter Anchors the Giant Galaxy Cluster Abell 611

Dark matter. It’s secret. It’s dark because it doesn’t give off any light. We...

Webb and Hubble Work Together to Reveal This Spectacular Galaxy Pair — and Several Bonuses!

What’s better than a pair of galaxies observed by a pair of iconic space telescopes? The answer to that,...

A Solar Gravitational Lens Will be Humanity’s Most Powerful Telescope. What are its Best Targets?

One of the central predictions of general relativity is that a massive object such as a star, galaxy, or...

A Computer Algorithm is 88% Accurate in Finding Gravitational Lenses

Astronomers have been assessing a new machine learning algorithm to determine how reliable it is for finding gravitational lenses...

Gravity Really Tangled up the Light From a Distant Quasar

Way back in 1979, astronomers spotted two nearly identical quasars that seemed close to each other in the sky....

Astronomers Measure the Signal of Dark Matter From 12 Billion Years ago

Although the particles of dark matter continue to allude us, astronomers continue to find evidence of it. In...

Hubble Sees a Mirror Image of the Same Galaxy Thanks to Gravitational Lensing

It’s been an amazing couple of weeks for fans of gravitational lensing. JWST grabbed the headlines with a...

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