The Sombrero galaxy, or Messier 104 or M104, is roughly 30 million light-years from the Earth in the Virgo constellation.

Webb’s Powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument Resolves Clumpy Nature of Dusty Disk Astronomers are known for their precision, but ...

Astronomers heading the search for extraterrestrial intelligence predict their quest might first spark an encounter with ...

The infrared-light image captured by the JWST's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the galaxy in a totally different way ...

Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and ...

Webb telescope, with help of Mid-Infrared Instrument, captured high-resolution mid-infrared image of galaxy, also known as ...

Credit: NASA/ MIRI/ NIRCam/ Giuseppe, et al 2024/ EWOCS Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken ... one ...

"Maybe we didn't understand the universe as well as we thought," said astrophysicist Justus Gibson of CU Boulder.

Brian Greene (Cosmic String Theory) and Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel have collaborated on a National Geographic coffee-table ...

Although Hubble's view of the Sombrero Galaxy is stunning, it is bound by the limits of the optical spectrum. In the Hubble ...

Magnetic Tornadoes Researchers have observed mysterious, "dark ovals," each roughly the size of the Earth, dotting the polar ...

The findings reveal that the inner disk touching the young star is extraordinarily hot, challenging conventional ...