galaxies
Zoom into a New VISTA of the Sculptor Galaxy
The new VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has captured…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This Week’s astro-ph Preprints: Jean Tate’s Best Pick
It goes by the super-catchy (not!) title "A Catalog of MIPSGAL Disk and Ring Sources". I chose it, over 213…
Double Hubble Sequence Shows Galaxies Go Spiral
[/caption] Galaxies come in all sorts of shapes. But in the past, the various galaxy shapes used to be more…
Latest from Hubble: Star Formation Fizzling Out in Nearby Galaxy
[/caption] Most galaxies are throughout the universe are happenin' places, with all sorts of raucous star formation going on. But…
Dark Energy Model Explains ‘Hubble Sequence’ of Galaxies
Caption: A figure illustrating the Hubble sequence. Image: Ville Koistinen One look at a Hubble Deep Field image reveals that…
Arp’s Phantom Jet
[/caption] During the “Great Debate” of 1920 astronomers Herber Curtis and Harlow Shapley had a famous debate on the nature…