Astronomers analyzing data from the second release of ESA’s star mapping mission Gaia have shown that our Milky Way Galaxy is still enduring the effects...
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located about 160,000 light-years away, has a counter-rotating stellar population in its disk. In a new paper...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a detailed image of a spectacular part of the Coma cluster, a structure of over a thousand galaxies bound...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a spectacular image of Abell 370, a massive galaxy cluster embedded among nearly thousands...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a striking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3981.
This VLT/FORS2 image shows the spiral...
Radio observations using a combination of NSF’s Very Long Baseline Array, the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope...
SDSS J1138+2754, a galaxy cluster located approximately 5 billion light-years away in the constellation Leo, is so massive that its gravity distorts, brightens,...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected a powerful ‘wind’ in SPT-S J231921-5557.9 (SPT2319-55 for short),...
By observing two neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, using the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4036.
This Hubble image shows the lenticular galaxy NGC...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers revealed that molecular clouds in a galaxy called AzTEC/COSMOS-1,...
A team of astronomers from the United States and the United Kingdom has found evidence that Milky Way’s faintest satellites — including dwarf galaxies...
Case Western Reserve University undergraduate student Chris Carr and colleagues have spotted a very diffuse extragalactic cloud in a group of galaxies...
Dr. Michael McDonald of MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and co-authors have uncovered a new massive cluster of galaxies hiding...
Astronomers have known that roughly 12 billion years ago, the gas in deep space was much more opaque than it is now in some regions, although the opacity...
Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive and largest structures that can be found in the Universe. A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...
In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Columbia University astronomer Sarah Pearson and co-authors show how gas...
Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) have examined a small group of five galaxies in the southern hemisphere. The results will be published...
