Using NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft, an international team of astronomers have performed X-ray observations of a nearby low-mass galaxy cluster designated PSZ2 G181.06+48.47. The ...

Globular clusters (GCs) are spherical collections of tightly gravitationally bound stars. They contain from tens of thousands to millions of stars and investigating them could help us better ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed two new streams of gas trailing behind a galaxy within ...

NASA is marking the United States' 250th birthday with four striking red, white, and blue images of deep space from the ...

The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a ...

By combining a new image of a giant galaxy cluster with older X-ray data, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) have demonstrated how the cluster's galaxies are suffused by huge amounts of gas ...