galaxies
The Perfect Tidal Tail Connects These two Galaxies Seen by Hubble
Sometimes it's tempting to imagine a supernatural hand behind the arrangement of celestial bodies. But the Universe is big, huge…
Webb and Hubble Peer Into the Wreckage of a Galactic Collision
Earlier this month we asked, what could be better than a pair of galaxies observed by a pair of iconic…
Webb and Hubble Work Together to Reveal This Spectacular Galaxy Pair — and Several Bonuses!
What’s better than a pair of galaxies observed by a pair of iconic space telescopes? The answer to that, according…
Galactic Photobombing
This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, appears to show two spiral galaxies colliding. In fact, they are just…
Here’s the Largest Image JWST Has Taken So Far
A team of scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have just released the largest image taken by the telescope…
The Earliest Galaxies Rotated Slowly, Revving up Over Billions of Years
A team of astronomers have used the ALMA telescope to find a slowly-rotating galaxy in the early universe. That galaxy…
Hubble Finds a Bunch of Galaxies That Webb Should Check out
The Universe is full of massive galaxies like ours, but astronomers don't fully understand how they grew and evolved. They…
Gaze Into the Heart of a Grand Spiral Galaxy
Here’s Hubble doing what Hubble does best. Some of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most famous and stunning images are of…
Part of the Milky Way Is Much Older Than Previously Believed
The Milky Way is older than astronomers thought, or part of it is. A newly-published study shows that part of…
New Photos Show a Black Hole Blasting out Powerful Winds
Pictures of galaxies never cease to amaze, and astronomers are consistently coming up with new ones that provide a different…