"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

It lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Big bang—The fiery birth ... Dwarf galaxy—The smallest and most common kind of galaxy. Elliptical galaxy—A galaxy that appears round or ...

Scott Bolton says he first dreamed of traveling through the galaxy when he was a boy camping out under the stars. Brent Humphreys Jupiter guards ... s team designed an elliptical orbit that ...

Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn ... It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt of its starry disk relative ...

This first full month of spring also presents a micromoon, a chance to see an iconic (if distant) galaxy, and a very frisky Jupiter ... The moon’s elliptical orbit means that its distance ...