Astronomers have long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy was 2-3 times the mass and size of the Milky Way, and that our own Galaxy would ultimately be engulfed...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of NGC 3344, a face-on spiral galaxy. Hubble’s capacity to observe objects in...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have produced this vivid image of a distant pair of interacting...
This view, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a somewhat overlooked barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 1559.
This image from the NASA/ESA...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, which is found in the constellation of Pegasus.
This Hubble/WFC3...
A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398 in striking detail.
This image shows spectacular ribbons of gas and...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy UGC 6093.
This image, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows the megamaser...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of a spiral galaxy called LEDA 53183.
This image, taken with the Wide-Field Camera...
Using data from the Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) on the Gemini North telescope in Hawai’i, astronomers have identified what they...
Conditions favorable for mergers of massive black holes exist in the outer gas disks of massive spiral galaxies, according to a study led by Rochester...
A jaw-dropping new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures what appears to be a strange galaxy with two ‘tails,’ but is actually 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
