galaxies
Small Amounts of Dark Matter are Creating Much Stronger Gravitational Distortions than Anyone Expected to See
Dark matter is much more clumpy than we thought, which means some dark matter might be very cold.
NGC 2275: An Absolute Unit of Galactic Flocculence
The Hubble Space Telescope has the knack for finding every size and shape of galaxy imaginable – from small, medium…
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 2608, Surrounded by Many Many Other Galaxies
Meet NGC 2608, a barred spiral galaxy about 93 million light years away, in the constellation Cancer. Also called Arp…
Hubble Photo of Globular Cluster NGC 6441, One of the Most Massive in the Milky Way
The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered another outstanding image. This one is of NGC 6441, a massive globular cluster in…
Hubble Looked as Far Back in Time as it Could, and Still Couldn’t See the First Generation of Stars in the Universe
Astronomers don’t know exactly when the first stars formed in the Universe because they haven’t been observed yet. And now,…
Study of 200,000 Galaxies Reveals the Entire Universe Might Have Been Spinning in One Direction Early On
A new study finds evidence that the universe as a whole is rotating, and that could have big implications for…
Barred Spiral NGC 3895 Captured by Hubble
NGC 3895 is a barred spiral galaxy in the Ursa Major constellation. It's about 145 million light years away from…
A Massive Rotating Disc Discovered in the Early Universe
If we want to understand how the Universe evolves, we have to understand how its large structures form and evolve.…
This Dwarf Galaxy is all by Itself
In these days of social distancing, it appears this beautiful little galaxy is leading by example, sitting all by itself…
This Galaxy Has Only One Spiral Arm
There are all kinds of odd things in the sky. Things that defy our naming conventions, and our attempts to…