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Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object nicknamed Cloud 9, located about 14 ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Across the observable universe, galaxies appear as luminous islands of stars and gas, anchored by invisible frameworks of ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Astronomers have identified Cloud 9, a nearby dark matter halo filled with gas but no stars. The discovery supports key predictions about how galaxies form and why some never do.

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...