galaxies
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…
Team Finds Most-Distant Galaxy Cluster Ever Seen
[/caption] Like a location from Star Wars, this galaxy cluster is far, far away and with origins a long, long…
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…
Click on Hubble: Galaxy Zoo Now Includes HST Images
The Hubble Space Telescope is 20 years old on Saturday and, to mark this anniversary, all the world's space and…
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…
Stunning Science Using Nature’s Telescope
[/caption] Einstein started it all, back in 1915. Eddington picked up the ball and ran with it, in 1919. And…
Andromeda’s Double Nucleus – Explained at Last?
In 1993, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped a close-up of the nucleus of the Andromeda galaxy, M31, and found that…
Magnetic Fields in Spiral Galaxies – Explained at Last?
[/caption] That spiral galaxies have magnetic fields has been known for well over half a century (and predictions that they…
Astronomers Find 90% More Universe!
[/caption] Astronomers have long known that many surveys of distant galaxies miss 90% of their targets, but they didn't know…