Jan 17, 2019 by News Staff

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured an amazing new photo of the spiral galaxy Messier 61. Messier 61 is...

Jan 8, 2019 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, displaying a full spiral face aglow with the light of nearly...

Dec 10, 2018 by News Staff

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the core and the innermost parts of the spiral arms of a galaxy called Messier 100. This Hubble...

Nov 15, 2018 by News Staff

Two teams of astronomers have finally found the long-sought progenitor star to a Type Ic supernova by sifting through Hubble archival data. An artist’s...

Oct 22, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033. This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5033....

Oct 12, 2018 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Caltech’s Kishalay De has discovered the first recorded ‘ultra-stripped’ supernova — a faint type of supernova...

Oct 8, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a detailed image of a spectacular part of the spiral galaxy Messier 95. This Hubble image reveals a detailed...

Sep 13, 2018 by News Staff

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...

Aug 9, 2018 by News Staff

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...

Jul 31, 2018 by News Staff

Conditions favorable for gravitational wave-emitting mergers of massive black holes exist in the outer gas disks of big spiral galaxies, according to a...

Jul 23, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a detailed view of part of NGC 6744, one of the most Milky Way-like spiral galaxies...

Jun 18, 2018 by News Staff

Numerous fuzzy blobs and glowing shapes scattered across this image — taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — make up RXC J0949.8+1707,...

Jun 6, 2018 by News Staff

Two similarly-sized spiral galaxies — NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 — swing past each other in a cosmic dance choreographed by gravity. Two spiral...

May 14, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1032, a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on. NGC 1032. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble. NGC...

Apr 27, 2018 by News Staff

On December 10, 2001 Australian amateur astronomer Robert Evans discovered a supernova in the outer edge of NGC 7424, a spiral galaxy located in the southern...

Apr 4, 2018 by News Staff

Our Milky Way Galaxy, which is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter, may be getting even bigger, according to a study by the Instituto de Astrofísica...

Apr 3, 2018 by News Staff

A team of European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers looking to better understand the formation history of our Milky Way Galaxy has started creating...

Apr 3, 2018 by News Staff

A blue supergiant star nicknamed Icarus is so far away that its light has taken 9 billion years to reach our planet. It appears to us as it did when the...

Mar 27, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has caught a kind of stellar explosion called a Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient (FELT) in the act. KSN 2015K’s host...

Mar 26, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 5714. This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714. Image credit:...