The Champagne Cluster is a rare and beautiful example of two galaxy clusters smashing together. Its festive name comes from both its New Year’s Eve discovery and its bubbly appearance in space. Images ...
Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...
Webb and Chandra reveal two spiral galaxies after an encounter, exposing heated gas, newborn stars and distorted arms, while hinting how the meeting will reshape them over billions of years.
It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...
Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral galaxies ...
NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year process of merging into a single celestial entity.
Astronomers now believe the Milky Way's "inevitable" collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally ...
Astronomers report that the Champagne Cluster is actually two galaxy clusters in the process of merging, based on X-ray, optical, and spectroscopic observations published in 2025 ...