NGC 4789A, a small galaxy approximately 14 million light-years away, is the subject of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
This Hubble...
A team of astronomers from the United States, France and the UK has observed a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk of the...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this incredible image of NGC 1222, a large lenticular galaxy with a starburst nucleus.
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A team of scientists led by National Radio Astronomy Observatory astronomer James Condon has found the shredded remains of a small galaxy that passed through...
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), a low-frequency (80-300 MHz) radio telescope located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia,...
A group of astronomers led by ETH Zurich scientist Elena Borisova has spotted giant clouds of glowing intergalactic gas around distant quasars.
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Using data from NASA’s Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescopes, astronomers have found a pair of remarkable sources that dramatically flare in...
Using data from the 64-m CSIRO radio telescope in Australia and the 100-m Max-Planck radio telescope in Germany, an international team of astronomers has...
An international team of astronomers led by University of Nottingham scientist Christopher Conselice has performed an accurate census of the number of...
Astronomers using ESO’s VISTA infrared survey telescope have discovered a dozen ancient stars, of a type known as RR Lyrae, in the vicinity of the center...
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a spiral galaxy known as NGC 278.
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 278, which lies in the northern...
A rogue black hole has been found in the outer regions of the lenticular galaxy SDSS J141711.07+522540.8 (GJ1417+52 for short). Evidence suggests this...
This image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a detailed view of the central part of the disc of NGC 247, a relatively small spiral...
A gamma-ray binary discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy approximately 163,000 light-years away, is the first object of its kind ever...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 24, which is found in the constellation of Sculptor.
This image from the...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have explored the same corner of the early Universe first revealed in the iconic image...
This image shows the Lyman-alpha blob LAB-1. This picture is a composite of two different images taken with the FORS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope...
This Hubble image shows the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77; the streaks of red and blue in the image highlight pockets of star formation along the pinwheeling...
On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Galaxy, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has pinned down the precise position on the sky and...
