Tagged: galaxies

While looking back to a time soon after the Big Bang, astronomers have now been able to observ ‘newborns’ – early galaxies as they appeared nearly 13 billion years ago – spun like a whirlpool, similar to our own Milky Way, a new study shows....

Astronomers – working with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – discovered 72 new galaxies in the southern constellation of Fornax (The Furnace). The objects have never been detected before. The team has focused their deepest spectroscopic survey ever, on the...

A gigantic collision of several galaxy clusters, each containing hundreds of galaxies, has produced a spectacular panorama of shocks and tremendous amounts of energy. The collisions generated shock waves that set off a celestial fireworks display of bright radio emission, seen as red and orange....

A massive,” dead” galaxy puzzles astronomer who now wonder what happened to all the stars. The case of galaxy MACS 2129-1 is interesting because it challenges our theories of galaxy evolution. Located about 10 billion light-years away from Earth, MACS 2129-1 is only half the...

The most comprehensive, high-resolution ultraviolet-light survey of nearby star-forming galaxies has been released by an international team of astronomers who combined Hubble’s new observations with its archival images. The collection of 50 star-forming spiral and dwarf galaxies in the local universe, offers a large and...