"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...
Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
There are spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way ... on the 5km altitude plateau of Chajnantor in Chile. wikipedia, CC BY-SA Our study examined the distribution of dust in more than 100 distant ...
The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...
NGC 4496 in the constellation Virgo consists of two spiral galaxies, NGC 4496A (upper large galaxy) and NGC 4496B (lower galaxy). They are in the same line of sight from Earth but located at quite ...