galaxies
Clash of Clusters Separates Dark Matter From Ordinary Matter
[/caption] A powerful collision of galaxy clusters captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory provides evidence for…
Cosmic ‘Needle in a Haystack’ Confirms Dark Energy
[/caption] A massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant universe by ESA’s orbiting XMM-Newton x-ray observatory is so big…
Hubble Spies Beautiful, Beastly Monster Galaxy
Complete with tentacles, a supermassive black hole and x-ray emitting gas, a monster of a galaxy has been found by…
Dark Matter is Missing From Cosmic Voids
[/caption] Cosmic voids really are devoid of matter. Astronomers have found that even the pervasive 'dark matter' which accounts for…
Milky Way Creates a Mess by Stealing Stars from Nearby Galaxies
[/caption] The halo of stars that envelops the outer Milky Way galaxy is like a "jumble of pasta" said one…
Two Galaxies Walk Into a Bar…
[/caption] Two galaxies walk into a bar. The young, regular spiral galaxy and the mature, barred spiral both order a…
It’s a Bird! It’s Tinker Bell! It’sThree Galaxies!
There once was a galaxy known as ESO 593-IG 008. It was thought to be a relatively mild-mannered galaxy, even…