Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a near-perfect alignment, resembling a string of cosmic pearls in the sky.

No jeweler on the planet can beat the string of pearls spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope: The merger of two elliptical galaxies has created a "necklace" of infant stars stretching for 100,000 ...

(Main) an image of the supernova 1987A taken by the JWST showing its mysterious "string of pearls" (Inset) a diagram showing how this feature could have formed (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M ...

If you were lucky enough to see what looked like a string of pearls in the sky over space-obsessed Seattle Tuesday night, you witnessed a small piece of the nation’s growing commercial space ...

Held together by their mutual gravity, several of the dwarf galaxies (designated D1 to D5) are rhythmically dancing with one another while others are engaged in a "cosmic tug of war," ripping gas ...