Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare group of five 'dwarf' galaxies that are 'interacting with each other' about 117 ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare group of five 'dwarf' galaxies that are 'interacting with each other' about 117 million light years away from Earth Dwarf galaxies contain a few ...

But the Sombrero galaxy is quiet in terms of star formation compared with other galaxies such as Messier 82. Ten times as many stars are born in the latter galaxy than the estimated 100 billion ...

It’s like asking what direction is farther north of the North Pole. Another way to think about the universe’s expansion is by thinking about how other galaxies are moving away from our galaxy, the ...

NGC 7320 is not a member of the group that contains the other four galaxies. (University of Hertfordshire) "Since its discovery in 1877, Stephan's Quintet has captivated astronomers, because it ...

A spiral galaxy with a disk that spans more than 100,000 light-years, it sits within a neighborhood called the Local Group, which includes more than 50 other galaxies. Some of the neighborhood's ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still ...

In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive black holes expect to find binary systems—two supermassive black holes orbiting each other—at the hearts of some galaxies.

In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive black holes expect to find binary systems – two supermassive black holes orbiting each other – at the hearts of some galaxies. Black ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way are nearly as old as the universe. Sometimes, they collide with other galaxies, which can lead to the galaxies merging and forming a larger, more massive galaxy.