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This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang. This object is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe.

What we’ve learned in 60 years of studying quasars

A galactic collision of two galaxies which began more than 300 million years ago, NGC 520 is actually made up of two disk galaxies which will eventually merge together to form one larger, more massive system. NGC 520 was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 and is one of the largest and brightest galaxies in the Siena Galaxy Atlas.

Siena Galaxy Atlas helps categorize nearby galaxies

JWST images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/I. Labbe

Galaxies, Science, Stars

Those puzzling JWST images can be explained by ‘bursty’ star formation

Gas giants like Jupiter, shown here, could be more common than previously thought.

Exoplanets, Planets, Science, Solar System

Why a solar system like ours might be more common than we think

Galaxies, Milky Way

Andromeda’s collision course with the Milky Way: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

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Galaxies, Stars

JWST finds carbon-rich dust grains earlier than expected

How vast is the universe? Unimaginably enormous

Deep-Sky Objects

See the sky’s best galaxy groups: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

Exotic Objects, Science

Powerful black holes might grow up in bustling galactic neighborhoods

M89 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble paints a portrait of elliptical M89

Strange Universe: Space colors

Cosmology, Galaxies

Galaxies in JWST’s mirror are closer than they appear