On Wednesday, researchers announced the discovery of the most distant star ever observed. But observed with the Hubble Space Telescope–and thanks to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing–the seemingly empty space is revealed to be full of distant galaxies, a cluster of which bends light from an even more distant, more ancient galaxy, including this star. And then as I was …
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shared a beautifully captured image of the spiral galaxy M101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy or Messier 101, on their official Instagram account and netizens are mesmerised. The Pinwheel Galaxy looks like a giant spinning wheel, spreading its shimmering spiral arms, formed with dust and star-forming nebula. “They captioned the photo as, “Giant galaxies weren’t …
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