Researchers have mapped the magnetic fields in a Milky Way spiral arm, discovering significant variations from previous galactic models. This groundbreaking study, leveraging advanced telescopes…
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Recent research offers a new understanding of the Local Supercluster’s unique galaxy distribution. This study, utilizing the advanced SIBELIUS simulation, reveals that galaxy types segregate…
University of Michigan astronomer Sally Oey studied a star-forming region in host galaxy, NGC 2366, which is a typical dwarf irregular galaxy. Credit: Observatorio de…
The big galaxy in the foreground is named LEDA 2046648, and is seen just over a billion years back in time, while most of the…
New ALMA observations have uncovered the impact of supermassive black holes on the chemical composition of galaxies, revealing how they break down common molecules and…
Researchers from SISSA have identified the main properties of a mysterious, distant celestial object using the ALMA interferometer. The young, compact galaxy is forming stars…
This image taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a spiral galaxy (bottom left) in front of a large galaxy cluster. New research leveraged an…
Researchers discovered the first ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to be found around a spiral galaxy with the mass of the Milky Way that’s outside of the…
Figure 1. Two exceptionally bright galaxies were captured in GLASS-JWST program. These galaxies existed approximately 450 and 350 million years after the Big Bang (with…
A trio of faint objects (circled) captured in the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 exhibit properties remarkably similar…
A study led by astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) may have discovered the explanation for variations in the shapes of…
Tiny galaxy HIPASS J1131–31 peeks out from behind the glare of star TYC 7215-199-1, a Milky Way star positioned between Hubble and the galaxy. One…
An artist’s conception of the Milky Way. Using data from the Gaia satellite telescope, a team headed by Lund University researchers in Sweden discovered that…
Artist’s illustration of cosmic ray-driven winds (blue and green) superimposed on a visible-light image of the Triangulum galaxy M33 (red and white) observed with VLT…
An artist’s illustration of a black hole. The black hole is over 1 billion light-years away. A team of astronomers has found a unique black…
The invisible halo that surrounds and permeates a galaxy or galaxy cluster is known as a dark matter halo. A University of California, Riverside physicist…
The dwarf galaxy NGC1427A flies through the Fornax galaxy cluster and undergoes disturbances that would not be possible if this galaxy were surrounded by a…
A small satellite galaxy (green globe on the bottom left) of the Milky Way – called Sagittarius – has been observed from Earth through giant…
The dwarf galaxy Sculptor, above, is a companion to the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers will use Webb to study the motions of stars in Sculptor…
Sky survey provides clues to how galaxies change over time. The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A…