galaxies
New Image Triples Your Galaxy Fun
[/caption] Here’s a brand new, magnificent look at the Leo Triplet -- a group of interacting galaxies about 35 million…
Cosmic Bullseye: Auriga’s Wheel
[/caption] One of the strangest types of galaxies are those known as ring galaxies. Examples of these include Hoag's Object…
Caught In The Web… Space Spider!
[/caption] Look, he's crawling up my wall... Black and hairy, very small... Now he's up above my head... Hanging by…
Elliptical Galaxies Don’t Act Their Age…
[/caption] Thanks to images taken with the MegaCam camera mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT, CNRC/CNRS/University of Hawaii), researchers are…
Are The Galaxies In Our Universe More Right-Handed… Or Left-Handed?
[/caption] It's called mirror symmetry and it has everything to do with a recent study done by physics professor Michael…
Ancient Galaxies Fed On Gas, Not Collisions
[/caption]The traditional picture of galaxy growth is not pretty. In fact, it's a kind of cosmic cannibalism: two galaxies are…
3D Galaxies – Coming Straight On For You
As we've recently learned, the ATLAS3D project was able to study 260 individual galaxies and do some very amazing things.…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Backgrounds
[/caption] You’ve probably heard of the cosmic microwave background, but it doesn’t stop there. The as-yet-undetectable cosmic neutrino background is…
A Four Cluster Pile-Up
[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…
Sleeping Beauties: A Galactic Fairye Tale
[/caption] It's a well known fact that galaxies come in two types - either actively forming stars or not. In…