Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the glittering spiral galaxy NGC 6951, where a central bar fuels a spectacular ring of ...
For several years, the astronomers have been intrigued by the compact and luminous galaxies observed in great number in the remote Universe. They are dwarf by their sizes, and however radiate ten to ...
Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble themselves from the surrounding primordial soup. A new discovery right at ...
This dramatic inner-to-outer gradient not only highlights the age and temperature differences among stars but also allows astronomers to trace the galaxy’s star formation history, investigate the ...
Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...
Recent studies suggest a revolutionary perspective on dark matter, proposing that it behaves like a cosmic superfluid, ...
In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This galaxy, shaped like our Milky Way, formed just a billion years after the Big ...
SPIRALING DOWN: NASA's Chandra orbiting X-ray observatory has validated a theory about the formation of spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, detecting a halo of hot gas exactly where theory predicted ...