Tag Archive for 'Galaxy'

This image shows the Spiderweb protocluster, seen at a time when the Universe was only 3 billion years old. Image credit: ESO / Di Mascolo et al. / NASA / ESA / Hubble / H. Ford.

ALMA Detects Huge Reservoir of Hot Gas in Very Distant Galaxy Protocluster

Mar 29, 2023 by News Staff

The galaxy protocluster is question is forming around the recently-discovered Spiderweb galaxy (also known as MRC 1138-262 or PKS 1138-262), an object...

This Hubble image shows Z 229-15, a spiral galaxy located 390 million light-years away in the constellation of Lyra. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Barth / R. Mushotzky.

Hubble Space Telescope Spots Very Luminous Seyfert Galaxy

Mar 27, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken a beautiful picture of the luminous spiral galaxy Z 229-15, which is found in the constellation...

This Hubble image shows the jellyfish galaxy JW100 (seen edge-on in the lower right). Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / M. Gullieuszik / GASP Team.

Hubble Focuses on Jellyfish Galaxy JW100

Mar 20, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Streams of star-forming gas dripping from the disk of a spiral galaxy called JW100 are formed by a process called ram pressure stripping, and their resemblance...

An artist’s impression of a blazar. Image credit: DESY / Science Communication Lab.

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Captures Dynamic Gamma-Ray Sky

Mar 15, 2023 by News Staff

The new animation shows the gamma-ray sky’s frenzied activity during a year of observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray...

The first epoch of COSMOS-Web NIRCam observations obtained on January 5 and 6, 2023, including the F115W, F150W, F277W, and F444W filters as a color composite. Image credit: COSMOS-Web / Casey et al. / RIT / UT Austin / IAP / CANDIDE.

New Webb Images Offer Treasure Trove of Early Galaxies

Mar 13, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers from the COSMOS-Web program released mosaic images taken in early January 2023 by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument...

This Hubble image shows UGCA 307, a dwarf galaxy some 26 million light-years away in the constellation of Corvus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R. Tully.

Hubble Spots Diminutive Dwarf Galaxy

Mar 13, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a stunning photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the dwarf galaxy UGCA 307. This Hubble image shows UGCA 307, a dwarf...

This Webb image shows the massive galaxy cluster RX J2129.6+0005; due to gravitational lensing, this observation contains three different images of a distant galaxy that hosted the Type Ia supernova event AT 2022riv. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / P. Kelly.

Webb Sees Three Images of Same Supernova-Hosting Galaxy

Mar 10, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Light from the distant supernova-hosting galaxy was gravitationally lensed by the foreground galaxy cluster RX J2129.6+0005 (RX J2129 for short). This...

This image features 3C 297 that is lonelier than expected after it likely pulled in and absorbed its former companion galaxies. In this new composite image, Chandra data is colored purple, VLA data is red and Gemini data is green. Visible light and infrared data from Hubble (blue and orange respectively) have also been included. Image credit: NASA / CXC / University of Torino / Missaglia et al. / ESA / STScI & International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / NRAO / AUI / NSF.

Chandra Finds Surprisingly Lonely Galaxy in Early Universe

Mar 9, 2023 by News Staff

3C 297 is located about 9.2 billion light-years away in the constellation of Virgo and contains a quasar, a supermassive black hole pulling in gas at the...

Davies et al. shed new light on the state of the Universe 13 billion years ago by measuring the density of carbon in the gases surrounding ancient galaxies. Image credit: Swinburne University of Technology.

Astronomers Measure Amount of Carbon around Galaxies in Early Universe

Mar 7, 2023 by News Staff

New research led by the Swinburne University of Technology shows that the amount of warm carbon suddenly increased by a factor of five over a period of...

This Hubble image shows NGC 5486, an irregular spiral galaxy located 110 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Kilpatrick.

Hubble Space Telescope Focuses on NGC 5486

Mar 6, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing photo of the irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486. This Hubble image shows NGC...

Illustration of the quasar triplet system and its environment. Image credit: Ni et al., doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca160.

New Study Sheds Light on Origin of Ultramassive Black Holes in Early Universe

Mar 2, 2023 by News Staff

Ultramassive black holes with extreme masses of over 50 billion solar masses can be formed in the rare events that are multiple quasar mergers happening...

SPT0418-47 is gravitationally lensed by a foreground galaxy, appearing in the sky as a near-perfect ring of light -- a so-called Einstein ring. Image credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / Rizzo et al.

Dusty, Chemically Mature Galaxy Spotted in Early Universe

Feb 28, 2023 by News Staff

The newly-discovered galaxy, SPT0418-SE, and its much larger companion, SPT0418-47, reside in a massive dark-matter halo with yet-to-be-discovered neighbors,...

This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5033. The image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). It is based on data obtained through two filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

ALMA Detects Supermassive Black Hole in Early Star-Forming Galaxy

Feb 28, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have detected a rapidly growing supermassive black hole in COS-87259, a galaxy that forms stars...

This Hubble image shows JO201 (also known as Ka 364, LEDA 2456 and LEDA 93189), a jellyfish galaxy located in the constellation of Cetus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / M. Gullieuszik.

Hubble Finds Star-Forming Clumps in Six Jellyfish Galaxies

Feb 27, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed clumps of star formation in the tails and disks of six ram-pressure stripped (jellyfish)...

Two dwarf-dwarf galaxy mergers in galaxy clusters Abell 133 (left) and Abell 1758S (right) are shown in X-rays from Chandra and optical light from the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope. The merger on the left is in a late stage and was given the single name of Mirabilis. The other merger is in the early stages and the two dwarf galaxies are named Elstir (bottom) and Vinteuil (top). Image credit: NASA / CXC / University of Alabama / Micic et al. / International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA.

Chandra Spots Two Pairs of Supermassive Black Holes on Collision Courses

Feb 23, 2023 by News Staff

According to observations and cosmological simulations, dwarf galaxies are the most abundant type of galaxies in the early Universe and the galaxy merger...

This candidate massive galaxy could contain as many stars as our present-day Milky Way. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / I. Labbe, Swinburne University of Technology / G. Brammer, Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center, University of Copenhagen.

Webb Discovers Impossibly Massive Galaxies in Early Universe

Feb 22, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have observed six candidate galaxies with stellar masses as high as 1011 solar masses about...

This Hubble image shows a large cluster of galaxies, SPT-CL J0019-2026, surrounded by various stars and smaller galaxies on a dark background. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). It is based on data obtained through two filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / H. Ebeling.

Hubble Spots Gravitationally-Lensing Galaxy Cluster

Feb 20, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

SPT-CL J0019-2026, a huge cluster of galaxies located 4.6 billion light-years away in the constellation of Cetus, has so much mass that it acts as a gravitational...

This Webb image shows NGC 7496, a barred spiral galaxy some 24 million light-years away in the constellation of Grus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Judy Schmidt.

Webb Focuses on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Nearby Galaxies

Feb 16, 2023 by News Staff

Webb observations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission provide some of the deepest and highest resolution views of the cold interstellar medium...

This Webb image shows Abell 2744, a huge galaxy cluster some 4 billion light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / I. Labbe, Swinburne University of Technology / R. Bezanson, University of Pittsburgh / A. Pagan, STScI.

Webb Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details of Abell 2744

Feb 16, 2023 by News Staff

Webb astronomers estimate 50,000 near-infrared sources are represented in the new image of the huge galaxy megacluster Abell 2744. This Webb image shows...

This Hubble image shows SDSSCGB 10189, a trio of merging galaxies located in the constellation of Boötes. Further to the left is an unconnected, dimmer spiral galaxy. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / M. Sun.

Hubble Spots Trio of Colliding Star-Forming Galaxies

Feb 13, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of a trio of merging galaxies called SDSSCGB 10189. This Hubble...

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