galaxies
‘Stealth Merger’ of Dwarf Galaxies Seen in New Images
[/caption] Space may be vast, but accidents can still happen, like when galaxies "collide," usually resulting in the smaller one…
Hubble Captures a Classic Barred Spiral Galaxy
[/caption] Is this what we look like? Astronomers don't know for sure exactly what the Milky Way looks like, but…
Distant Invisible Galaxy Could be Made Up Entirely of Dark Matter
[/caption] Astronomers can’t see it but they know it’s out there from the distortions caused by its gravity. That statement…
What Color is the Milky Way? White as Snow (not Milk)
[/caption] What color would the Milky Way appear to alien civilizations looking at our galaxy through their telescopes? It turns…
Astronomers Witness a Web of Dark Matter
[/caption] We can't see it, we can't feel it, we can't even interact with it... but dark matter may very…
A Star-Making Blob from the Cosmic Dawn
[/caption] Looking back in time with some of our best telescopes, astronomers have found one of the most distant and…
How Can Growing Galaxies Stay Silent?
[/caption] Beginning around 2005, astronomers began discovering the presence of very large galaxies at a distance of around 10 billion…
New Submillimetre Camera Sheds Light on the Dark Regions of the Universe
[/caption] The stars and faint galaxies you see when you look up at the night sky are all emitting light…
Astronomers Find the Most Supermassive Black Holes Yet
[/caption] For years, astronomer Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy at The University of Texas at Austin have been…
Astronomers Discover Ancient ‘Ultra-Red’ Galaxies
[/caption]A team of astronomers, led by Jiasheng Huang (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) using the Spitzer Space Telescope, have discovered four…