NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of UGC 4459, a type of galaxy known as an irregular dwarf galaxy.
This image, taken by...
Using the OmegaCAM wide-field imager, a large camera mounted on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, astronomers have captured this vivid image of a small galaxy...
Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have assembled this colorful image of the small galaxy IC 1613.
This VLT image shows the irregular dwarf...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has made the first detailed observations of a rare dwarf galaxy recently formed within the giant collisional ring surrounding...
Using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered over 250 ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in three extremely distant...
Using the Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-m MPG/ESO telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, astronomers have captured a new image of a nearby small...
A nearby dwarf irregular galaxy called the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM) poses an intriguing mystery: how is it able to form large star clusters without...
A team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-m Clay Telescope in Chile has found the smallest supermassive black hole ever...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured an incredible image of the dwarf galaxy NGC 1140.
This image shows the dwarf galaxy...
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (or ACS), one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s advanced instruments, has taken a spectacularly detailed image of a galaxy...
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of a dwarf galaxy called UGC 11411.
This...
The Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken an image of the dwarf irregular galaxy PGC 18431.
This image shows the...
A group of astronomers led by Dr Joshua Simon from the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington has discovered two stars in the Sculptor...
According to a group of astronomers led by Prof Jean Turner of the University of California, Los Angeles, more than a million infant stars are forming...
Scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked at a dwarf galaxy called SBS 1415+437 with unprecedented clarity.
This image shows the...
A team of astronomers, led by Dr Alex Geringer-Sameth of Carnegie Mellon University, has detected gamma rays emanating from the recently discovered dwarf...
Using the data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), astronomers have found nine new ultra-faint Milky Way satellites. Based on the morphological properties,...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of the M81 group post-starburst galaxy UGC 8201.
This image shows...
A new neighbor of our Milky Way Galaxy has been discovered with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
This...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of a tiny galaxy known as UGC 1281.
This image shows the dwarf galaxy UGC 1281....
