These isolated cosmic clouds are filled with dense gas and dust, which are surrounded by hot, energetic material. Cometary globules are unique because they have extended tails, ...

425 clusters of newborn stars shine along cosmic tails that could hold clues to the universe's past. By Laura Baisas. Published Feb 9, 2024 10:36 AM EST.

A cometary globule, named CG 4, is the cosmic phenomenon that resembles a ghostly hand seemingly reaching toward a spiral galaxy in a new image taken by the Dark Energy Camera.

The isolated cosmic clouds are filled with dense gas and dust, which are surrounded by hot, energetic material. Cometary globules have extended tails that resemble the tails of a comet.

The Dark Energy Camera captured a rarely seen celestial phenomenon in action: a cosmic cloud called “God’s Hand,” which appears to reach out for a spiral galaxy.

Abell 2255 is a cluster containing between 300 and 500 constituent galaxies, many of which are merging. It's located around 800 million light-years from Earth and spans around 16.3 million light-years ...

This galaxy cluster has mysterious cosmic tendrils over 200,000 light-years long ... "Our main goal was to use LOFAR-VLBI to detect possible filaments in the tails of the radio galaxies of ...

Galaxies This galaxy cluster has mysterious cosmic tendrils over 200,000 light-years long (image) ... Hence, tidal tails can become the most intense star-forming regions in a galaxy.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max ...

Late July is a great time to get acquainted with the Little Dipper, also called Ursa Minor. Face north as soon as it gets ...