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Pranim Limbo, a citizen scientist inspecting deep radio images from a remote hillside in the Himalayas, spotted a galaxy nearly 1.8 million light-years across bent into the shape of a bow and arrow — and the team that followed up thinks it's frozen mid-crash into a galaxy cluster
The collaboratory has produced peer-reviewed work before. As Space Daily previously reported, the same network identified a giant double-ring radio galaxy halfway across the universe earlier this year, also through LoTSS.
In 2025, astronomers discovered Eos, the closest dark molecular cloud ever found — a vast crescent of molecular hydrogen just 300 light-years from Earth. It is so enormous on the sky that, if human eyes could see its ultraviolet glow, it would stretch about 40 times the width of the full Moon.
Humanity has spent well over a billion dollars bringing asteroid pieces back to Earth — and all the material returned by Hayabusa, Hayabusa2, and OSIRIS-REx combined weighs about 127 grams, less than a small apple.
Euclid, the European telescope built to map the dark universe billions of light-years away, spent a single 26-hour stretch staring into the crowded center of the Milky Way and resolved more than 60 million stars, handing NASA's Roman mission a reference map for the planet hunt it begins after launching in late August
South Korea's military built a solid-fuel rocket to put spy satellites in orbit on short notice, and the full four-stage version is set to make its first flight
SpaceX launched 165 Falcon 9 rockets into orbit in 2025 — nearly one every other day — accounting for roughly 85% of all U.S. orbital launches and almost twice as many orbital launches as the entire nation of China managed that year.
Just 18 light-years away, astronomers have found one of the best nearby targets in the search for life: a candidate super-Earth called GJ 251 c, sitting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Future giant telescopes may be able to image it directly — and look for clues that it has water, air, or even biology.
Astronomers used to assume galaxies formed first and slowly grew the black holes at their centres. But JWST is now finding objects in the early universe where the black hole appears to have arrived first — already enormous before a full galaxy had grown around it.
In 2008, Cassini skimmed past Enceladus’s south pole and flew straight through a plume of icy material erupting from cracks in the moon’s surface. The encounter lasted only minutes, but nearly two decades later, data from that flyby is still revealing new organic chemistry from an ocean hidden beneath the ice.
The James Webb Space Telescope found a spiral galaxy, nicknamed the Big Wheel, that existed just two billion years after the Big Bang — five times more massive than the Milky Way, with a spiral structure our models say couldn't have survived that early
The Roman Space Telescope has the same size mirror as Hubble, but it will survey the sky up to 1,000 times faster — not because it sees deeper, but because it sees wider: each Roman image captures a patch of sky at least 100 times larger, making Hubble’s method look like counting a crowd one face at a time.
