Astronomers Reveal the Role of Mergers in Shaping Galaxies
A new analysis of eighteen thousand colliding galaxies reveals that mergers like the one in galaxy NGC 4676 are the dominant mechanism for determining the…
A new analysis of eighteen thousand colliding galaxies reveals that mergers like the one in galaxy NGC 4676 are the dominant mechanism for determining the…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making…
A team of astronomers has discovered a new kind of galaxy in the early universe, less than a billion years after the Big Bang. These…
Using the Hornet and SuperMUC supercomputers in Germany and a state-of-the-art code, a team of scientists has helped uncover the history of the galaxy. Thousands…
Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, astronomers spotted a massive “dead” galaxy from a time when the Universe was only 1.65 billion years…
This new Hubble image of the week gives us a closer look at the starburst region in NGC 4536. Galaxy formation and evolution are still…
Using Chandra and several other telescopes, astronomers have found the most distant galaxy cluster to date. This cluster, called CL J1001+0220, lies about 11.1 billion…
A team of astronomers has discovered two dwarf galaxies that have traveled from the remote hinterlands of space to the Milky Way. NASA’s Hubble Space…
Abstract: The spatial distribution of people exhibits clustering across a wide range of scales, from household (∼10−2 km) to continental (∼104 km) scales. Empirical data…
Using CSIRO’s Parkes Radio Telescope equipped with an innovative receiver, a team of astronomers were able to see through the stars and dust of the…
Set to launch on Friday, the ASTRO-H satellite will help provide breakthroughs in a wide variety of high-energy phenomena in the cosmos, ranging from the…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy LO95 0313-192, which is located roughly one billion light-years away. Despite its unassuming appearance, the edge-on spiral…
Using ESO’s VISTA Survey Telescope, astronomers have discovered a horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy. The…
Using gravitational lensing, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed some of the earliest known galaxies — galaxies that formed just 600 million years after the…
After monitoring 24 pulsars with the Parkes Radio Telescope for 11 years, new research casts doubt on our understanding of galaxies and black holes. For…
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have extrapolated the character of the current galaxies in the Local Group back to the cosmic Epoch of…
This newly released Hubble image shows a pair of interacting galaxies known as NGC 3921. It is known today that merging galaxies play a large…
This newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of…