Over time, the clouds contract because of gravity ... Thus far, we've talked about how spiral galaxies develop and how rotation shapes their arms. But what's the deal with those bulges we ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

NGC 5668, observed by Hubble, showcases rapid star formation and frequent supernovae, distinguishing it from our own galaxy.

From one billion to three billion years after the big bang many smaller galaxies merged into larger ones, forming an array of shapes resembling ... The sun formed within a cloud of gas in a ...

Galaxies usually become chaotic when they run out of star-making fuel, but this one is going out surprisingly quietly.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, situated 100 million light-years from Earth in the Leo Minor constellation. Scientists, using data from ...

Strange Universe Like a parasite sucking the life force out of its host, an international group of scientists have determined ...

A recent discovery of a magnetic halo surrounding the Milky Way galaxy could significantly alter our understanding of ...

Think of its second V-shape as an arrow ... A halo is a spherical cloud of ... [+] stars surrounding a galaxy. Astronomers have proposed that the Milky Way's halo is composed of two populations ...

Dancing Galaxies ... shape and mass, but reside in less ... July 24, 2024 — Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast ...

the colliding of two galaxies. The pair, known as Arp 107, are located located 465 million light-years away and have been pulled into strange shapes by the gravitational forces of the interaction, ...

Using a new method exploiting the capabilities of the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), astronomers have detected 307 ...