Ten trillionths of your suntan comes from beyond our Milky Way Galaxy, according to a team of astronomers led by Prof. Simon Driver from the University...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured incredible images of two small, ancient galaxies in the constellation of Pisces. According to astronomers,...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of nearby galaxy NGC 2337.
This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on...
An international team of astronomers has found that there is a huge region in the inner part of the Galactic disc that is devoid of stars known as Cepheids.
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The gaseous halo of our Milky Way Galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at a similar speed as the Galaxy’s disk, which contains stars, planets,...
This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the star-forming galaxy NGC 3125.
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Astronomers from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III) have produced the largest-ever 3D map of...
The subject of this Hubble image is LEDA 56779, a spiral galaxy located 300 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules.
This image from...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged an ancient and faint dwarf galaxy called LEDA 677373.
This Hubble image shows the dwarf galaxy LEDA 677373....
Almost 55 percent of the star formation arises from minor mergers between galaxies, according to an astronomer who analyzed data collected as part of the...
The newest photo from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is of a rare type of galaxy, known as a ‘tadpole.’
Kiso 5639 is a member of a class of galaxies...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an absolutely beautiful image of the interior of NGC 1569, one of the most active galaxies in our local...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found the most distant oxygen yet seen in the Universe, in a galaxy 13.1...
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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