Tagged: galaxy

NASA’s statement calls NGC 2336 “the quintessential galaxy.” Imagine a galaxy and what comes to mind likely looks like NGC 2336, a shimmering swirl of stars. And just days before a software glitch temporarily shut down the Hubble Space Telescope, the iconic spacecraft sent home...

Data from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed how supermassive black holes shape their host galaxies with powerful winds that sweep away interstellar matter. In a new study, scientists analysed eight years of XMM-Newton observations of the black hole at the core of an active...

There are at least two bright spots in these strange times: Telescopes are still studying distant galaxies and penguins are still pooping across Antarctica. In both cases, if you’re looking for new ways to pass the time while you stay home, you can help out...

A massive, rotating disk galaxy that first formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, could upend our understanding of galaxy formation, scientists suggest in a new study. In traditional galaxy formation models and according to modern cosmology, galaxies are built beginning with dark-matter...

Eleven billion years ago, a hot, active, galaxy that looked like an eye glared across space. Now, using data from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a snapshot of its unblinking gaze. This galaxy, R5519, is made...

Peering into the early universe, astronomers uncovered a surprise: a young galaxy that looks a lot like our home, the Milky Way. The newfound galaxy is called SPT0418-47 and, given its great distance from Earth, astronomers see the galaxy as it was when the universe...

Galactic halos are both more massive and more complicated than scientists realized, according to new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. The venerable telescope turned its sights on the neighboring Andromeda galaxy using dozens of different quasars to map the galactic halo. Andromeda, more formally...

Clever use of the tilt-shift effect offered a new view of this distant galaxy. The Andromeda galaxy lies 2 million light-years from Earth, but it looks close enough to touch in an image that took home the top prize in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Insight...

Astronomers in Australia have just mapped 83% of the observable universe, in just 300 hours. This new sky survey, which Australia’s national science agency (CSIRO) described in a statement as a “Google map of the universe” , marks the completion of a big test for...

Astronomers have peered out into the vast expanse and spotted what they think is the farthest (and oldest) galaxy ever observed. The galaxy GN-z11 might not have a flashy name, but it appears to be the most distant and oldest galaxy ever detected, scientists have...