... show that colliding galaxies likely spawned black holes that formed about 13 billion years ago. The discovery fills in a missing chapter of our universe's early history, and could help write the next
Posted by Universe Today
Sometimes, as an astronomer, I get to do some really weird stuff. This summer is one of those times. I actually, thanks to project PI (i. e. lead) Bill Keel, got an opportunity to help produce a comic book telling the story of how a Dutch school teacher found the light echo of a once bright
Posted by Star Stryder
"I'm on rhe outside… I'm lookin' in." And just who are we looking in at this time? None other than the familiar face of Centaurus A.. The stunning, turbulent dust lane is cloaked in the ethereal mist of living galaxy stuff – the result of a gravitationally hungry elliptical galaxy drawing a smaller companion spiral
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Galaxies come in lots of shapes and sizes, but in general, we can group them into four flavors: spiral, elliptical, irregular (no real shape), and peculiar (definite shape, but weird). We can also say lots of general things for each class: spirals are flat and have lots of gas and dust, ellipticals are spheroids with very
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... "over-the-hill galaxies" have been infused with fresh gas to form new stars that power
Posted by Universe Today
... cluster, with thousands of galaxies closely bunched together. Amid the bedlam of ellipticals, lenticulars and irregulars is this majestic face-on spiral galaxy known as NGC 4911. Hubble stared long and deep to get this highly detailed image of this particular galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster.
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... (red). The Antennae galaxies take
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Today´s OOTW features Alice´s OOTD, posted on the 29th of July. This is AHZ40004wr, a galaxy residing in the constellation Taurus around 3 billion light years away. It's a wonderful spiral galaxy, and following its spiral arms is a large dust lane, a place full of young stars and stars that are only just being
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