Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), astronomers from Italy and Germany have observed a group of galaxies designated NGC ...

The stunning spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are beautifully showcased by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA's ...

Gravitational lenses have been used previously to resolve individual stars in the distant Universe. Using the microlensing of ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

The carbon atoms in your body have likely traveled much farther than you have, possibly hundreds of thousands of light-years ...

"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan famously said, “We are made of star stuff,” and new research brings a deeper understanding to this ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...

Shimakawa, however, says that not enough is known about the interplay between supermassive black holes and their surrounding galaxies and that other mechanisms could be contributing to the slowing ...

Jan. 3, 2025 — Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That ...