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…
Galaxy Evolution News
Spherical Phase of Planetary Nebula Abell 30
These new images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, which is located 5,500 light-years away from Earth, show one of the clearest views ever obtained…
Star Formation in the Universe Has Decreased Drastically
In a new study, an international team of scientists established that the rate of star formation in the Universe is now only 1/30th of what…
HR 8752 Reveals Crucial ‘Missing Link’ in the Evolution of Hypergiant Stars
A newly published study encompasses thirty years of research on hypergiant HR 8752, a star that is roughly 250 times brighter than our Sun and…
NASA’s Fermi Measures Extragalactic Background Light
Using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a team of astronomers have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used…
Asteroid Belts and Their Potential Significance for Life
A newly published study from a team of scientists suggests and explains how asteroid belts may be important both for the existence of life and…
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…
NASA Discovers a Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution
A newly published study shows that nearby disk galaxies unexpectedly reached their current state long after much of the universe’s star formation had ceased. A…
Scientists Explore How Order Emerges From Chaos in the Cosmos
A newly published paper details how scientists created a model for exploring how electromagnetic fields help organize ionized gas in astrophysical settings, giving scientists a…
A Closer Look at Interacting Galaxies
Scientists look at how galaxy collisions can distort the shapes of the galaxies involved, including the shapes and orientations of the regions around their central…
High-Velocity Galactic Winds Moving at 2,500 Kilometers Per Second
Using optical morphologies from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a team of astronomers found 29 objects with…
Arepo Software Helps Simulate the Birth and Evolution of Galaxies
By using Harvard’s Odyssey high-performance supercomputer and new software called Arepo, a team of scientists developed a new computational approach that can accurately follow the…
Data Reveals Swift J1644+57’s QPO Cycle
A newly published study describes the X-ray signal, called a quasi-periodic oscillation or QPO, that was observed the days following the last years discovery of…
3D Models Confirm Supernova’s Role in the Formation of Our Solar System
A soon-to-be published study from scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science provides the first fully three-dimensional models for how a shock wave from a supernova…
VLT Reveals That O Stars, Which Drive the Evolution of Galaxies, Don’t Live Alone
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study a sample of 71 O-type single stars and stars in pairs in six nearby young star clusters in…
Trajectory Models of Refractory Particles Help Solve Two Solar System Puzzles
In a newly published study, astrophysicists detail how they modeled the trajectories of refractory particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed…
Hubble Helps Solve the Mystery of Why Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Contain Few Stars
With help from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now believe reionization is to blame for the relatively small number of stars found in the extremely…
Evolution of the Moon Video
At roughly three minutes long, this animated video walks you through the evolution of the moon from its first formation 4.5 billion years ago, to…