"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reached a remarkable milestone—its 100,000th exposure, capturing an image of a quasar located 9 ...
Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.
A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...
The cosmos has a way of keeping astronomers on their toes. Just beyond the edges of the Andromeda galaxy, researchers have ...
The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...
Many spiral galaxies contain a bar structure that crosses through the center. This photo is of the barred spiral galaxy NGC ...
A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...
is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way — but it seems to have evolved in a much different way, new Hubble data suggests. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An ambitious new survey by the Hubble ...