Tagged: galaxy

An “Old Faithful”-like event in space may shed light on the nature of stars near supermassive black holes embedded in galaxies. Researchers saw repeated outbursts — every 114 days, on average — in a galaxy some 570 million light-years away from Earth. (For perspective, the...

Astronomers may have captured the first good look at giant flares from the strongest magnets in the universe. The likely cause of these giant flares? Starquakes trillions of trillions of times stronger than any earthquakes, scientists reported at the 237th American Astronomical Society meeting, held...

This hazy spiral galaxy is one of the largest in the Virgo cluster — a collection of more than 2,000 galaxies. In the 1950s, when amateur astronomer Leland S. Copeland first fixed his telescope lens on a distant galaxy in the Virgo constellation, he saw...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of How to Die in Space. He contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Opinions and Insights. We don’t know why...

“This galaxy looks like a grown adult, but it should just be a little child.” A distant galaxy in the newborn universe essentially resembles a grown adult when it should just look like a small child, new findings that suggest galaxies may evolve far more...

The study, carried out by the University of Nottingham, believe that some of these races could be based some 17,000 light years away. Experts believe that there could 36 intelligent alien races living in our galaxy. A new study from the University of Nottingham was...

A new study estimates that there might only be 36 communicating extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy. But that number doesn’t tell the whole story. IN THE SEARCH for extraterrestrial intelligence, there’s really only one big question: Where is everybody? This question has haunted alien hunters...

The largest structures in the universe bind billions or even trillions of stars in their massive gravitational yokes. Cosmic dust and vast clouds of gas fill galaxies, too, along with the planets and other matter that may orbit stars. Galaxies got their start nearly 14...

IT’S the deep space mystery that’s kept astronomers guessing for more than a year. Now stargazers think they’ve finally explained a bizarre observation which led experts to claim an “alien megastructure” was orbiting a distant star. In October last year, scientists offered a new theory...

Just days after it spotted a “bat shadow,” the Hubble Space Telescope has found a “feathered spiral” galaxy in deep space. The image, released by NASA and the European Space Agency, is of a galaxy known as NGC 2775. It is 67 million light-years away,...