Edwin Hubble initially identified approximately 11-12 galaxies within the Local Group, a term he coined, while current estimations place the number of members at 125 or more. The Local Group's total ...

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image: Researchers discovered the first ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to be found around a spiral galaxy with the mass of the Milky Way that’s outside of the clustering of galaxies that includes the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects galaxies so far away that we see them as they were over 13 billion years ago. This ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama desert region of Northern Chile, astronomers have revealed five ...