Tags: galaxies

A new photo of NGC 4254, or Messier 99, was captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. It is a grand design spiral galaxy, whose spiral arms wrap...

Astronomers have designed and trained a computer program that can classify tens of thousands of galaxies in just a few seconds, a task that usually takes months to accomplish. In...

Until recently, measuring faint magnetic fields for distant galaxies was an exceedingly hard thing to do. Telescopes simply weren’t sensitive enough to register such faint signals. In 2011, though, the...

Threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields are weaving a tapestry of energy at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. A new image of this new cosmic masterpiece was...

Three dozen dwarf galaxies far from each other had a simultaneous ‘baby boom’ of new stars, an unexpected discovery that challenges current theories on how galaxies grow and may enhance...

This star-studded image shows the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans B, which lies around 4.5 million light-years from Earth at the outermost edges of the Local Group. With a total mass...

A STUNNING image of our Milky Way galaxy shining brightly over a medieval castle has been snapped in Dorset. Photographer Graham Hunt captured Corfe Castle surrounded by a thick sea...

The Whirlpool Galaxy sounds like a horror movie. In space, no one can hear you scream, but on Earth we have ways of turning space objects into haunting soundtracks. Galaxies,...

The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, astronomers have detected a galaxy-wide molecular outflow from the quasar PDS 456. The findings are presented in a paper published March...