But the newest findings suggest otherwise. The “halo” around the nearby Andromeda galaxy. Image source: NASA, ESA, J.

One of the largest galaxy clusters ever seen shines bright in this image from the Hubble Space ... how it interacts with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — weak radiation left over from ...

Webb’s view makes the “crown” of the sombrero invisible, changing the appearance of the galaxy to resemble a bull’s-eye. Meanwhile, distant galaxies glimmer in the background of the image.

The image shows a panoply of stars ... interesting clouds of nebular gas within the galaxy; foreground stars with Webb's diffraction spikes; and background galaxies with neat features like tidal ...

Together, the blue stars and bubble are part of a dwarf galaxy that extends beyond the image border. Background galaxies are scattered across the image, with some particularly prominent spirals ...

It's that image that has now been reprocessed with new techniques, revealing more intricate details within the galaxy itself, and more stars faintly speckling the background. Although the Sombrero ...

The spiral galaxy GC 6744 amid a background of many more galaxies, and stars, too. Credit: ESA / Euclid / Euclid Consortium / NASA // Image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay ...

Take, for example, the beautiful image of the galaxy cluster Abell 1689 captured ... Blue-white arcs among the yellow galaxies are lensed images of background objects seen within gravity’s ...