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An "Einstein cross" is a fascinating phenomenon that resembles a flower with four petals.

A new image from the European Southern Observatory captures a cosmic wildflower in space.

What looks like a flower with four blue petals is actually an interesting phenomenon called an 'Einstein cross.'

The magnetic field is a thousand times weaker than Earth’s, but is spread out across 16,000 light years.

A distant galaxy sits isolated in a new photo from the powerful observatory.

The galaxy called 9io9 and its light took over 11 billion years to the Earth.

This galaxy, named 9io9, is situated at such an immense distance that its light has traveled for over 11 billion years before reaching the Earth.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a distant galaxy cloaked in a ghostly haze some 44 million light-years from Earth in the Pavo, or "peacock" constellation.

Asking Questions NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning picture of a young star system some 1,470 light-years away called Herbig-Haro 46/47, two nascent stars caught in a tight embrace as they spin around each other. But if you zoom in close enough towards the bottom center of the stunning infrared image, you […]

The James Webb Space Telescope captured the eerie punctuation mark, found buried within an image of Herbig-Haro 46/47—a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars located 1,470 light years from Earth.