Tag Archive for 'Galaxy'

The tidal disruption event AT2024tvd. Image credit: NASA / CXC / University of California, Berkeley / Yao et al. / ESA / STScI / HST / J. DePasquale.

Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Discovered 600 Million Light-Years Away

May 8, 2025 by News Staff

This supermassive black hole was discovered thanks to the newly-identified tidal disruption event AT2024tvd, an astronomical phenomenon in which a star...

This Hubble image shows NGC 3596, an intermediate spiral galaxy some 90 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo. The color image is made up of observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 WFC3) in the ultraviolet, near-infrared, and optical parts of the spectrum. It is based on data obtained through six filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Looks at Face-On Intermediate Spiral Galaxy

May 5, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A beautiful new photo from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3596. This Hubble image shows NGC 3596, an intermediate spiral...

This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1961. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / J. Dalcanton / R.J. Foley, UC Santa Cruz / C. Kilpatrick.

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Distorted Spiral Galaxy: NGC 1961

Apr 28, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the massive spiral galaxy NGC 1961. This Hubble image...

This Hubble image shows Messier 104, a galaxy located 28 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / K. Noll.

Hubble Space Telescope Revisits Messier 104

Apr 16, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Hubble team has released a beautiful new image of the Sombrero...

This image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date, shows its remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a central old bulge, and a large star-forming disk, resembling the structure of the Milky Way. Image credit: NASA / CSA / ESA / M. Xiao, University of Geneva / G. Brammer, Niels Bohr Institute / Dawn JWST Archive.

Webb Discovers Milky Way-Like Spiral Galaxy in Early Universe

Apr 16, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just one billion...

This Hubble image shows Messier 77, a barred spiral galaxy some 62 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instruments. It is based on data obtained through six filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / L.C. Ho / D. Thilker.

Hubble Space Telescope Snaps New Image of Messier 77

Apr 14, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released an incredibly beautiful image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77. This Hubble image shows Messier...

From a great distance, our Milky Way Galaxy would look like a thin disk of stars that orbits once every few hundred million years around its central region, where hundreds of billions of stars provide the gravitational ‘glue’ to hold it all together. But this pull of gravity is much weaker in the Galaxy’s far outer disk. There, the hydrogen atoms making up most of the Milky Way’s gas disk are no longer confined to a thin plane, instead they give the disk an S-like, or warped, appearance. Image credit: Xiaodian Chen.

Do Galaxy-Free Dark Matter Halos Exist in Universe?

Apr 8, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study by University of California, San Diego computational astrophysicist Ethan Nadler shows that star formation can occur in halos down to 10 million...

This image shows NGC 4945, a spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus; NGC 4945’s supermassive black hole-driven wind is shown in red in the inset. Image credit: ESO / Marconcini et al.

NGC 4945’s Central Black Hole is Blowing Out Powerful Winds of Material, Astronomers Say

Apr 8, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected supermassive black hole-driven winds in the barred spiral galaxy...

This composite image, which combines data from Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instruments, shows an Einstein ring around an elliptical galaxy in the galaxy cluster SMACSJ0028.2-7537. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / G. Mahler.

Very Rare ‘Einstein Ring’ Spotted by Webb

Apr 2, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Light from an extremely distant spiral galaxy was bent and magnified by the gravity of a member of the galaxy cluster SMACSJ0028.2-7537 into a ring-like...

This Hubble image shows NGC 4941, a spiral galaxy some 67 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. The color image is composed of near-infrared, optical and ultraviolet observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Six filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Space Telescope Spies NGC 3274

Mar 31, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 4941. This Hubble image shows NGC 4941,...

Webb observed Herbig-Haro 49/50 in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light with the NIRCam and MIRI instruments. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI.

Webb Spots Tornado-Like Herbig-Haro Object

Mar 25, 2025 by News Staff

Using the NIRCam and MIRI instruments onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have produced a high-resolution image of Herbig-Haro...

This image shows the spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268-0449256 and its giant radio jets. Image credit: Bagchi et al. / Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope.

Cosmic Anomaly: Massive Spiral Galaxy is Ejecting Colossal Pair of Relativistic Jets

Mar 24, 2025 by News Staff

2MASX J23453268-0449256 (J2345-0449 for short), an extremely massive, rapidly rotating, jet-launching spiral galaxy approximately 947 million light-years...

This Hubble image shows NGC 5530, a spiral galaxy some 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Lupus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of NGC 5530

Mar 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a beautiful new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the ‘flocculent’ spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This Hubble image...

This is an artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

ALMA Detects Oxygen in Farthest Known Galaxy

Mar 20, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected oxygen in the most distant confirmed galaxy ever found, JADES-GS-z14-0....

This Hubble image shows a small region of the Small Magellanic Cloud near the center of the open cluster NGC 346. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Murray.

Hubble Focuses on Star-Studded Region in Neighbor Galaxy

Mar 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a small region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky...

This Hubble image shows NGC 4900, a spiral galaxy approximately 45 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / S.J. Smartt / C. Kilpatrick.

Hubble Space Telescope Spies NGC 4900

Mar 10, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacular image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4900. This Hubble image shows NGC 4900,...

This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Water was Already Present in Primordial Universe 100-200 Million Years after Big Bang

Mar 3, 2025 by News Staff

Described in a paper that appears today in the journal Nature Astronomy, the discovery means habitable exoplanets could have started forming much earlier...

This Hubble image shows NGC 5042, an intermediate spiral galaxy some 48 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Space Telescope Looks at NGC 5042

Mar 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a beautiful new image of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5042. This Hubble image...

Visualization of the Radcliffe Wave. Image credit: Alyssa Goodman / Harvard University.

Our Solar System Crossed ‘Radcliffe Wave’ during Miocene Epoch, Astronomers Say

Feb 25, 2025 by Natali Anderson

As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium. These encounters can...

This mosaic shows galaxies hosting intermediate-mass black hole candidates, arranged in increasing order of stellar mass. Image credit: Legacy Surveys / D. Lang, Perimeter Institute / NAOJ / HSC Collaboration / D. de Martin, NSF’s NOIRLab / M. Zamani, NSF’s NOIRLab.

DESI Discovers 2,800 New Black Holes

Feb 19, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on NSF’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a program...

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