After a decade of research, Cape Town astronomers have revealed the vast Vela supercluster, a monumental cosmic structure ...

Super galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe. Now, a particularly large one has been measured, ...

A UCT-led team has used South Africa's MeerKAT and Salt to reveal a vast hidden supercluster lurking behind the Milky Way.

Principal Architect Sandeep Patil’s landmark research charts a new course for cloud-native data warehousing — from serverless ...

Astronomers have identified what appears to be an unusually distant candidate “jellyfish” galaxy, a strange object trailing a ...

A few days ago, longtime Astronomy magazine contributor Chris Schur sent me the image you see here. It shows the famous Double Cluster in Perseus, also known as NGC 869 and NGC 884. Most images of ...

We present a comprehensive reanalysis of the dynamical state of the high-redshift galaxy cluster SPT-CL J2215-3537 (z = 1.16), using the full set of available Chandra observations to characterize the ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is ...

Formally known as Messier 44, the cluster is one of the closest of its kind to Earth. It will be visible throughout January, with the best viewing times after sunset and before midnight. While visible ...

While peering into some of the oldest regions of the known universe — dating back to just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang — an international team of astronomers made a puzzling discovery. As ...