NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between two individual galaxy clusters. The image, produced in conjunction with ...

Why it's so special: Galaxy clusters act as a magnifying lens, shining light on the faintest and most distant objects — a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. On the rarest of occasions, galaxy ...

The Bullet Cluster, named for its distinctive shape, has long been considered a smoking gun for the existence of dark matter in space. What makes this cluster famous isn’t the violence of it all. It’s ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided groundbreaking insights into the Bullet Cluster, a cosmic collision zone located 3.8 billion light-years from Earth. The JWST’s enhanced imaging ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a greater abundance of extremely faint and distant galaxies than ever before.

For astronomers studying dark matter, the Bullet Cluster is one of the greatest laboratories in the universe. It was discovered almost by accident, a blip of x-rays in the sky that was detected by ...

Where it is: 3.7 billion light-years from Earth, in the constellation Carina When it was shared: June 30, 2025 Why it's so special: Galaxy clusters act as a magnifying lens, shining light on the ...