galaxies
Ultraluminous Gamma Ray Burst 080607 – A “Monster in the Dark”
[/caption] Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic phenomena astronomers regularly observe. These events are triggered by massive…
Colliding Galaxies Created the First Black Holes
[/caption] How were the Universe’s first supermassive black holes formed? A new model of the evolution of galaxies and black…
Astrophotography Spotlight – Centaurus A
"I'm on rhe outside... I'm lookin' in." And just who are we looking in at this time? None other than…
Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found Around Ancient Galaxies
[/caption] Title this 'Zombie Galaxies' or 'Night of the Living Galaxies.' Astronomers have found mysterious, giant loops of ultraviolet light…
Breathtaking Galaxy Amid the Dense Coma Cluster
[/caption] The Coma Cluster is a huge, densely populated cluster, with thousands of galaxies closely bunched together. Amid the bedlam…
Space Telescopes Team Up to Capture Spectacular Galactic Collision
[/caption] From JPL: A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies,…
WISE Mission Completes All-sky Infrared Survey
[/caption] If you take a lot of digital pictures, you're probably familiar with the frustration of keeping track of dozens…
Cosmologists Provide Closest Measure of Elusive Neutrino
[/caption] Cosmologists – and not particle physicists -- could be the ones who finally measure the mass of the elusive…
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…