Barred spiral galaxies
Courting the sirens of the southern sky
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Webb telescope captures new detail of Phantom Galaxy
The James Webb space telescope has revealed dazzling new detail of a previously known slice of the cosmos 32 million light-years away, in a new picture released by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
The infrared technology of the telescope, launched in December 2021, has allowed for an even clearer view of the so-called Phantom Galaxy than astronomers had ever seen before.
Milky Way Still Bears the 10-billion-year-old Scars of a Galactic Collision
Galaxies collide with each other on a pretty regular basis. Our own Milky Way, for instance, has gobbled up dozens of smaller galaxies in the past, and Andromeda is currently hurtling towards us at 109 km (68 mi) per second.
The Sun will Devour the Earth in 5 Billion years
South China Morning Post - Enjoy the sun while it lasts: in 5 billion years time, our host star will burn out, rip itself apart and turn into a massive glowing ring of interstellar gas and dust, scientists say.
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NASA Showed a Galaxy at 130 Million Light-years from Earth
US Space Agency NASA published a photo of spiral galaxy NGC 5714 in the Volovar constellation. It is about 130 million light-years from our planet.
The image of NGC 5714 is made with the Hubble Space Telescope with the ACS camera.
The Hubble Space Telescope Recorded the Fusion of Galaxies (Photos)
Scientists have acquired an early stage photo from a galactic fusion process thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope.
The two galaxies that were shot are some 350 million light years away from the Earth in the constellation Whale. The process is in an early stage. They will continue to converge for millions of years, and then become a homogeneous structure.
Chinese Astronomers Have Said that the Milky Way Limits Are 26% Wider
Chinese Astronomers from the State Observatory have said that the Milky Way limits are 26 percent wider than previously accepted, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said, quoted by BGNES.
Half of your body may have formed from a galaxy far, far away
“We are all made of stars” used to sing Moby in 2002 and though science has known it for a while, a new study went as far as to claim half of the atoms making up everything around us, and in us, may have formed beyond the Milky Way.