Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...
"Zhúlóng shows that mature galaxies emerged much earlier than expected in the first billion years after the Big Bang," writes a team led by astronomer Mengyuan Xiao of the University of Geneva in ...
In some cases, they detected carbon extending out almost 400,000 light years — or four times the diameter of our own galaxy — into intergalactic space. Future research is needed to quantify ...