Latest about Galaxies

By Victoria Corless Published
Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

By Samantha Mathewson Published
NASA has unveiled a dazzling new collection of cosmic images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing spectacular stars and galaxies in unprecedented detail.

By Robert Lea Published
A distant cluster of galaxies is wrapped in a vast halo of high-energy particles that could be the work of supermassive black holes or a cosmic particle accelerator.

By Robert Lea Published
Astronomers have taken an unprecedentedly detailed look at the tendrils and filaments that wrap around supermassive black hole-dominated galaxies of Abell 2255.

By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
A galactic collision 11 billion light-years away reveals how an actively feeding supermassive black hole disrupts star formation in a nearby galaxy.

By Stefanie Waldek Published
A combination of X-ray from NASA's Chandra observatory and radio data indicates that a galactic "fracture" was likely caused by a special neutron star called a pulsar.

By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
Galaxy cluster Abell 1489, as imaged by the International Gemini Observatory, contains more than 200 of the gravitationally-bound systems of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas and dust.

By Keith Cooper Published
The Andromeda galaxy's family of satellite galaxies point towards the Milky Way, and nobody knows why.

By Keith Cooper Published
A fog of long-wavelength infrared light could be produced by dusty, star-forming galaxies that have remained hidden — until now, that is.

By Samantha Mathewson Published
A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its core in a new photo taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
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