Tags: galaxies

A ROCKY «Super-Earth» planet has been spotted orbiting one of the Milky Way galaxy’s oldest stars. Astronomers in Hawaii say the distant world is one and a half times the...

Bullet Cluster, which provided first evidence of dark matter, can be seen via gravitation lensing in video If you’ve ever wondered what space sounds like, NASA has you covered. The...

If you’ve ever wondered what space sounds like, NASA has you covered. The space agency has posted several videos of what two supernovae and a colliding cluster of galaxies «sound»...

Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center . Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman , RealSpace ,...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the compact green pea galaxy J0925+1403. The diameter of the galaxy is approximately 6,000 light years, and it is about twenty times...

At nearly the beginning of time, the universe was shrouded in darkness. Then, early galaxies produced bright, hot stars that leaked brilliant light intergalactic space through small channels, turning the...

Seven to 10 billion years ago, a bunch of galaxies fell in with a bad crowd at the Coma cluster — a galactic group comprising thousands of their ilk. That...

Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are. The Earth spinning around on its axis once gives us the length of...

Previously, planets have been detected only in the Milky Way galaxy. Now for the first time, astrophysicists at University of Oklahoma have discovered a population of planets beyond the Milky...

While looking back to a time soon after the Big Bang, astronomers have now been able to observ ‘newborns’ – early galaxies as they appeared nearly 13 billion years ago...