Hubble’s Newest Discovery Isn’t a Star, It’s a Window Into the Dark Universe

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.
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Hubble’s new type find, “Cloud 9,” rewrites galaxy blueprints

Llambay. The object known as Cloud 9 is unusual in a universe in which stars tend to signal the location where the matter has ...
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NASA telescope combines 100 maps of the universe into one: 'every astronomer is going to find something of value here'

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...
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Astronomers discover the earliest, hottest galaxy cluster in the universe, and it breaks all the rules

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...
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This Early-Universe Cluster of Galaxies Is Way Hotter Than It Should Be

Gas within the cluster, which existed merely 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, is at least five times hotter than ...
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NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object

A team using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless, gas-rich, ...