NASA Chandra X-ray telescope data from galaxy cluster Abell 2146 showed a "shockwave that stretches for some 1.6 million ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between two individual galaxy clusters. The image, produced in conjunction with ...

For anyone disappointed that the Milky Way – our host galaxy – may not collide with our closest neighbor Andromeda after all, we have good news to keep your collision-hungry minds satisfied.

Roughly 2.8 billion light-years from Earth, two galaxy clusters are engaged in a cosmic tussle. These enormous structures last collided about a billion years ago, but now, it appears they’re going ...

These clouds of radio energy are "radio relics" resulting from powerful shockwaves surging through the hot gas that fills the space amid a galaxy cluster. Credit ...

The galaxy cluster PLCKG 287.0+32.9, located 5 billion light-years away, exhibits an exceptionally violent collision of three subclusters, characterized by extensive turbulence and shock waves.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Astronomers taking inventory of the material in the local universe keep coming up short. A new result from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory about ...

When two pairs of galaxy clusters collide, the final result is not four separate objects, but one giant galaxy cluster. Astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other ...

Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster ...

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