While reviewing a survey of the sky taken in 2019, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope spotted LEDA 1313424. The […] ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
An artist's conception of the star speeding through the Milky Way galaxy. Reddish and purple lines depict quicker star movement. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) A ...
NASA telescope captures the most detailed glimpse yet of the black hole in the middle of our galaxy - Scientists hope that ...
Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...
TL;DR: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a 2.5 billion-pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy, our closest neighbor, set to collide with the Milky Way in 4.5 billion years. NASA's Hubble ...
Previously, scientists thought the entire universe existed within the Milky Way, per the NASA statement. But when Andromeda proved to be its very own galaxy, astronomers realized the universe ...
and what effect they have had on the galaxy. Andromeda clearly has had a more active merger history than the Milky Way, and we can see that in the velocity plane quite clearly.” A young cluster ...
It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble's results suggested the farther away a galaxy was ... during the Big Bang. NASA named its flagship ...