Tag Archive for 'Galaxy bar'

Montage of Webb images showing six example barred galaxies, two of which represent the highest lookback times quantitatively identified and characterized to date. The labels in the top left of each figure show the lookback time of each galaxy, ranging from 8.4 to 11 billion years ago (Gyr), when the Universe was a mere 40% to 20% of its present age. Image credit: NASA / CEERS / University of Texas at Austin.

Webb Finds Six Barred Galaxies in Early Universe

Jan 5, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have spotted early galaxies with stellar bars — elongated features of stars stretching...

An artist’s conception of the Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Milky Way’s Dark Matter Halo is Slowing Down Galactic Bar’s Spin, Astronomers Say

Jun 15, 2021 by News Staff

According to new research by astronomers from the University of Oxford and University College London, the spin of the bar of our Milky Way Galaxy —...