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Largest known spinning structure discovered 140 million light-years from Earth, galaxies rotate in sync across a massive cosmic filamentAstronomers have found a colossal spinning structure in space. Galaxies within this formation appear to spin together with a massive cosmic...
26 Dec, 2025, 11.30 AM IST
Nothingness and fullnessScientists are mapping cosmic voids, vast empty spaces between galaxies. These regions are not truly empty. They contain sparse matter and ...
14 Dec, 2025, 11.34 PM IST
3I/ATLAS: Most detailed 8K image of 3I/ATLAS yet? Mysterious interstellar comet flexes its majestic tail a week before its Christmas flyby to Earth3I/ATLAS most detailed image: A new 8K image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now available. This image provides the most detailed view ye...
11 Nov, 2025, 10.56 AM IST
A cosmic Halloween treat: NASA's James Webb telescope reveals eerie Red Spider nebulaThe James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an awe-inspiring picture of the Red Spider Nebula, disclosing intricate, never-before-seen data...
30 Oct, 2025, 12.07 AM IST
The universe's darkest mysteries are coming into focusThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, equipped with the largest digital camera, is poised to conduct an unprecedented 10-year astronomica...
20 Jun, 2025, 06.34 AM IST
How cosmic structures with size nearly nine times the diameter of the Milky Way shaped galaxies billions of years agoAstronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale structures from ...
14 Mar, 2025, 06.58 PM IST
What is Quipu: Superstructure over 1.3 billion light-years long and holds almost 200000000000000000 solar massesScientists have officially given a name to the largest solar structure in the known universe. Astronomers have found the largest structure ...
13 Feb, 2025, 07.46 PM IST
Indian scientists discover 'Saraswati' -- a supercluster of galaxiesThis is one of the largest known structures in the neighbourhood of the universe, 4,000 million light-years away from Earth and roughly mor...
14 Jul, 2017, 11.58 AM IST
NASA's Hubble captures 'beating heart' of Crab NebulaThe neutron star at the very centre of the Crab Nebula has about the same mass as the Sun but compressed into an incredibly dense sphere th...
10 Jul, 2016, 02.30 PM IST
Cosmic voids may contain 20% of universe's 'normal' matterResearchers from the University of Innsbruck in Austria suggest that galaxies make up only 1/500th of the volume of the universe.
28 Feb, 2016, 01.25 PM IST
Astronomers discover protogalaxy 10 billion light-years awayAstronomers have discovered a giant protogalaxy 10 billion light-years away, and found that it is about four times larger in diameter than ...
10 Aug, 2015, 07.36 PM IST
NASA's Hubble images Little Gem Nebula in spaceNASA's Hubble telescope has captured a stunning image of a planetary nebula, which shows a bright and colourful cloud of dust and gas.
10 Aug, 2015, 02.22 PM IST
Newly identified galactic supercluster home to Milky WayAstronomers have determined that our Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, dubbed 'Laniakea'.
04 Sep, 2014, 04.51 PM IST