galaxies

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand in New Herschel Image

[/caption] Wow. Just wow. Each of the colored dots in this new image from the Herschel telescope is a galaxy…

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Hail to His Spiralness, M83

[/caption] ESO released a beautiful image today of M83, a classic spiral galaxy. The image was taken by the HAWK-I…

14 years ago

Team Finds Most-Distant Galaxy Cluster Ever Seen

[/caption] Like a location from Star Wars, this galaxy cluster is far, far away and with origins a long, long…

14 years ago

New Image Reveals Thousands of Galaxies in Abell 315

[/caption] In an image akin to the Hubble Deep Field, ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile stared at a patch…

14 years ago

GOODS, Under Astronomers’ AEGIS, Produce GEMS

No, not really (but I got all three key words into the title in a way that sorta makes sense).…

14 years ago

Click on Hubble: Galaxy Zoo Now Includes HST Images

The Hubble Space Telescope is 20 years old on Saturday and, to mark this anniversary, all the world's space and…

14 years ago

Hubble Captures Distorted Beauty of M66

[/caption] This isn't your basic spiral galaxy, but perhaps it used to be! Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys has captured…

14 years ago

Stunning Science Using Nature’s Telescope

[/caption] Einstein started it all, back in 1915. Eddington picked up the ball and ran with it, in 1919. And…

14 years ago

Andromeda’s Double Nucleus – Explained at Last?

In 1993, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped a close-up of the nucleus of the Andromeda galaxy, M31, and found that…

14 years ago

Magnetic Fields in Spiral Galaxies – Explained at Last?

[/caption] That spiral galaxies have magnetic fields has been known for well over half a century (and predictions that they…

14 years ago