Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding between 5% and 9% faster than previously calculated.
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A group of astronomers led by Dr. Ximena Fernandez from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect...
What is the total mass of our Milky Way Galaxy? The short answer, so far, is 7 x 1011 solar masses, says a team of astronomers at McMaster University,...
Astronomers have uncovered a new type of galaxies, dubbed ‘red geysers,’ with supermassive black hole winds so intense and hot that stars can’t form.
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Astronomers have detected and confirmed the faintest early-Universe galaxy ever using the 10-m Keck II telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of an enormous group of galaxies in the constellation of Leo.
This Hubble image shows...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 5308.
This Hubble image shows the lenticular galaxy NGC...
Astronomers report that they have observed the most metal-poor galaxy ever seen in the Local Universe, a region of space within about one billion light-years...
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is likely the best of the grand-design spiral galaxy NGC 6814.
This Hubble image shows NGC 6814,...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Aaron Barth of the University of California, Irvine, has derived a precise measurement of the mass of a...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 4394.
This Hubble image shows NGC 4394, a barred...
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows the beautiful and elegant galaxy NGC 4111.
NGC 4111. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy...
Analysis of the very high resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the gravitational lens SDP.81 reveals a dwarf...
ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at Paranal Observatory in Chile has taken the best ever photo of a concentration of galaxies known as the Fornax Cluster.
This...
Hubble astronomers provide a beautiful look inside UGC 477, a type of galaxy known as a low surface brightness galaxy.
This Hubble image shows the low...
NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of an irregular dwarf galaxy known as Leo A.
This image from the NASA/ESA...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns in the center of the relatively...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of UGC 4459, a type of galaxy known as an irregular dwarf galaxy.
This image, taken by...
Using the OmegaCAM wide-field imager, a large camera mounted on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, astronomers have captured this vivid image of a small galaxy...
