galaxies

Voorwerpje… And Away!

[/caption]It's 28 pages long and it has been submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. It's filled…

13 years ago

New Image Triples Your Galaxy Fun

[/caption] Here’s a brand new, magnificent look at the Leo Triplet -- a group of interacting galaxies about 35 million…

13 years ago

Cosmic Bullseye: Auriga’s Wheel

[/caption] One of the strangest types of galaxies are those known as ring galaxies. Examples of these include Hoag's Object…

13 years ago

Caught In The Web… Space Spider!

[/caption] Look, he's crawling up my wall... Black and hairy, very small... Now he's up above my head... Hanging by…

13 years ago

Elliptical Galaxies Don’t Act Their Age…

[/caption] Thanks to images taken with the MegaCam camera mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT, CNRC/CNRS/University of Hawaii), researchers are…

13 years ago

Are The Galaxies In Our Universe More Right-Handed… Or Left-Handed?

[/caption] It's called mirror symmetry and it has everything to do with a recent study done by physics professor Michael…

13 years ago

Ancient Galaxies Fed On Gas, Not Collisions

[/caption]The traditional picture of galaxy growth is not pretty. In fact, it's a kind of cosmic cannibalism: two galaxies are…

13 years ago

3D Galaxies – Coming Straight On For You

As we've recently learned, the ATLAS3D project was able to study 260 individual galaxies and do some very amazing things.…

13 years ago

Astronomy Without A Telescope – Backgrounds

[/caption] You’ve probably heard of the cosmic microwave background, but it doesn’t stop there. The as-yet-undetectable cosmic neutrino background is…

13 years ago

A Four Cluster Pile-Up

[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…

13 years ago