Tag: galaxy

A team of astronomers from Yale and the University of California-Santa Cruz have looked back in time, discovering a galaxy ...

It is generally accepted that our galaxy has a diameter of nearly 100,000 light-years. However, findings of a new research, published ...

Many people change a lot after their youth... and so to did our Universe. Nowadays, galaxies contain both dust and ...

A mysterious cosmic object thought to be an immense cloud of gas and dust left scientists scratching their heads after ...

Astronomers have for the first time discovered a pair of supermassive black holes that orbit each other in an ordinary ...

The Illustris project took 5 years of software development and 3 months running on 8000 processors - but it sure was ...

This galaxy weighs more than 200 million suns, over half of which is concentrated within a radius of just 80 ...

Over 83.000 volunteer science citizens, 16 million galaxy classifications, 300.000 nearby galaxies: this is what you get when you ask ...

An extremely rare and small galaxy has just been reported by astronomers, which by all accounts can be considered the ...

I was always puzzled by the tentacle-like spiral arms some galaxies (including our own) develop; it just seems so counter ...

Researchers have, for the first time, calculated the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. ...

Astronomers working on the Kepler telescope believe that every 1 in 6 stars hosts at least an Earth-sized planet in ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... at about 2 billion light years away from Earth lies ...

Using the evergreen Hubble telescope, astronomers from NASA have been able to uncover a previously unseen population of ancient galaxies, ...

The inset at left shows a close-up of the young dwarf galaxy. This image is a composite taken with Hubble's ...

Recent measurements conducted by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, and observed by other X-ray instruments from around world and in space, suggest that ...

An international team of astronomers may have come across the first sound evidence testifying the existence of dark galaxies - ...

Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. Their formed after black holes devour captured material, like  gas dust ...

Using the  Subaru and Keck optical/infrared telescopes on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, a 4,200 metre-high summit which houses the world's largest observatory for ...

Astronomers classify galaxies into three basic types: elliptical (flat, elongated shape), spiral (most easily recognizable and common - described by ...

Some black holes are just meant to survive, regardless of what they go through. This is probably the case with ...

An array formed by the greatest space telescopes in the world  first discover, then photograph this ancient galaxy from the ...

The Hubble telescope has captured through an innovative technique, which harnessed light bent from a distant galaxy in a optical ...

A new radio telescope array built in the world's highest and driest desert in the world has just photographed two ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest body of water so far known, a reservoir of water floating in space around a ...

Finding new planets is interesting an remarkable, but finding a whole new class of planets - that's definitely something extraordinary. ...

If you think that the recent outbreak of tornadoes are bad, boy are you in for a shocker. An international ...

Once again NASA's amazing "astronomy picture of the day" feature provides us with pure gold. The above captioned stunning photo ...

Our solar system appears to exist inside a "bubble", inside a network of cavities inside the interstellar medium, which was ...

Yes, you've read that right. There are over 50 billion planets in our galaxy alone, according to the Kepler telescope, ...

A new study suggests that a blunder of cosmic proportions has been made when estimating the total number of stars ...

When early galaxies formed, there was a surprisingly high rate of new stars being formed, which was explained by major ...

The first touchable scientific results of the Herschel infrared space observatory are spectacular indeed; not only is it showing previously ...

The Coma Galaxy, a galaxy directly involved in the so called dark flow Two years ago, researchers reported the strange ...

Well ladies and gentlemen, you'd better fasten your seat belts, because we're in for quite a spin. The Milky Way ...

Two of the biggest and most impressive stars from our galaxy have been "surprised" in some really amazing poses by ...

According to Murphy's Law, all great discoveries happen by mistake. This is not the case here, but scientists had the ...

Let's start with the beginning, shall we ? A black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational ...

  Recently, a team of researchers (with the help of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) ...

A black hole is a weird and fascinating thing. There are few things we know about them. Astronomers are studying ...