galaxies
The Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies Ever Found
Galaxy mergers are not particularly rare, but they are important events. Not only for the galaxies involved, but for scientists…
Perfect Example of a Barred Spiral Galaxy, Seen Face On. This is What Our Milky Way Might Look Like
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a beautiful image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7773. This is a…
16 Years of Hubble Images Come Together in this one Picture Containing 265,000 Galaxies
The Hubble Legacy Field, the result of 16 years of observations and the most detailed image of our Universe, has…
What Will the James Webb Space Telescope See? A Whole Bunch of Dust, That’s What
When it comes to the first galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to understand the formation of those…
This is What It’ll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide Billions of Years from Now
What happens when two galaxies collide? The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are on a collision course, and in…
Massive Photons Could Explain Dark Matter, But Don’t
I’ll be the first to admit that we don’t understand dark matter. We do know for sure that something funny…
Thanks to Gaia, We Now Know Exactly When We’ll be Colliding with Andromeda
Astronomers have known for some time that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies will collide on some future date.…
Check out this Amazing Picture of the Triangulum Galaxy by Hubble.
To the unaided eye, the Triangulum Galaxy is just a smudge in the night sky. But it's a smudge that…
New Research Reveals How Galaxies Stay Hot and Bothered
It's relatively easy for galaxies to make stars. Start out with a bunch of random blobs of gas and dust.…
Gaia Spots an Enormous Ghost Galaxy Right Next Door that’s Being Dismantled by the Milky Way
Astronomers combing through data from the ESA's Gaia spacecraft have discovered what they're calling a ghost galaxy. The galaxy, named…