A striking new image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 4490. The scattered and warped appearance of the galaxy is the...
The MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has taken a picture of NGC 1964, an incredibly beautiful spiral galaxy in the constellation...
The oxygen level in J0811+4730, a star-forming dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx, some 630 million light-years away, is the lowest yet discovered...
NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the small galaxy LEDA 31961.
LEDA 31961. Image credit: NASA / ESA...
For the first time, astrophysicists have confirmed that cosmic rays with ultra-high energies come from outside our Milky Way Galaxy.
At the Pierre Auger...
Astronomers have discovered what may be the most compact binary supermassive black hole ever known in a galaxy about 400 million light years from Earth.
An...
A new study, led by University of Sydney astronomer Caroline Foster, is the first to confirm that increased rotation alters the shape of galaxies: faster-spinning...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a remarkable new picture of NGC 5398.
This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5559.
This Hubble image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC...
An international team of astronomers has measured the magnetic field of a star-forming galaxy nearly 4.6 billion light-years away.
An image obtained using...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a remarkable new image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as NGC 5765.
The two galaxies shown here,...
Astronomers have detected the first X-rays from a Type Ia supernova, located inside the spiral-shaped galaxy ESO 336-G009.
An image showing X-rays detected...
The Subaru Telescope, the 8.2-m flagship telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii, has...
This image of the small galaxy NGC 178 comes courtesy of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).
This new image...
An international research team, led by Dr. Bianca Poggianti of the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova, has used the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very...
An international team of astronomers has found evidence for a unique gravitational lensing system, in which a massive star cluster is magnifying an extremely...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the dwarf spiral galaxy IC 1727.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory in Chile has snapped an amazing new photo of NGC 7098, a spiral galaxy with numerous sets of...
