Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy LEDA 89996
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy J04542829-6625280. This little-known galaxy, officially named J04542829-6625280, but most often referred to as LEDA 89996, is a…
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Hubble Image of Wolf-Rayet Galaxy SBS 1415+437
Hubble gets a closer look Wolf-Rayet galaxy SBS 1415+437, a star-bursting galaxy with an unusually high number of extremely hot and massive stars known as…
Hubble Views Starbursting Galaxy SBS 1415+437
This Hubble image of the week shows a galaxy named SBS 1415+437 or SDSS CGB 12067.1, which is located roughly 45 million light-years from Earth….
Giant Galaxy Messier 87 Is Still Growing
According to new observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 has swallowed an entire medium-sized galaxy over the last billion…
Astronomers Discover 11 Runaway Elliptical Galaxies
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Moscow State University have discovered 11 isolated compact elliptical galaxies that have been flung out of their…
Hubble Image of the Week: The Beautiful Side of IC 335
This newly released Hubble image shows lenticular galaxy IC 335, which is located 60 million light-years away. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows…
Chandra Measures Massive Galaxy Cluster in Distant Universe
Using Chandra data, researchers were able to accurately determine the mass and other properties of the most distant massive galaxy cluster discovered to date. Officially…
Hubble Image of the Week: Dwarf Galaxy Markarian 209
This newly released Hubble image shows dwarf galaxy Markarian 209. This sprinkle of cosmic glitter is a blue compact dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 209….
Chandra Confirms Active Galactic Nuclei Downsizing
A new study of 209 galaxies in the early universe with X-ray bright supermassive black holes reveals that more modest active galactic nuclei (AGN) tend…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy ESO 373-8
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy ESO 373-8, which is located roughly 25 million light-years away. Located some 25 million light-years away, this…
Image Shows Galaxy Cluster “Tails”
A composite image shows two “tails” that were created when cool gas from ESO 137-001 was stripped by hot gas as it travels toward the…
Astronomers Identify a New Kind of Galaxy, “Green Bean Galaxies”
Located in the constellation of Aquarius, roughly 3.7 billion years from Earth, galaxy J2240 has been identified as part of a new class of galaxies…
New Observation of Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster Abell 520
A newly published study from astronomers at Ohio University shows that the core of Abell 520 does not appear to be over-dense in dark matter…
Hubble Spots Lenticular Galaxy NGC 5010
This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy NGC 5010, which is located about 140 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo…
Largest Catalog Ever of Center of the Milky Way
An international team of astronomers created a catalog of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way using a nine-gigapixel…
Hubble Views a Starburst Galaxy Hard at Work
Located about 12 million light-years from the sun and part of the Messier 81 group of galaxies, starburst galaxy NGC 3738 is currently converting hydrogen…
Centaurus a Hides a Gaseous Spiral at Its Core
Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan & Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered that elliptical galaxy Centaurus A also shows signs of a spiral…
New Image of Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660
A new image of ring galaxy NGC 660, which is located about 40 million light-years from Earth toward the constellation Pisces, was released by the…