In these days of social distancing, it appears this beautiful little galaxy is leading by example, sitting all by itself…
General relativity tells us that everything, even light, is affected by the mass of an object. When a beam of…
A new study indicates that, contrary to what has been previously argued, galaxies like our own may be the most…
There are all kinds of odd things in the sky. Things that defy our naming conventions, and our attempts to…
I know you're Googling "flocculent" right now, unless you happen to be a chemist, or maybe a home brewer. You…
A team of European scientists have observed the most distant "blazar" to date, an active galaxy that was around when…
This galaxy looks a lot like our own Milky Way galaxy. But while our galaxy is actively forming lots of…
Spiral galaxies are an iconic form. They're used in product logos and all sorts of other places. We even live…
Astronomers have spotted a 40 billion solar mass black hole in the Abell 85 cluster of galaxies. They found the…
NGC 6240 is a puzzle to astronomers. For a long time, astronomers thought the galaxy is a result of a…