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Early Galaxy Chemistry: VLT Observes Gamma-Ray Burst
[/caption]"Shot through the heart and you're to blame..." There's nothing more powerful than a gamma-ray burst. These abrupt, mega-bright events are captured by orbiting telescopes where the...
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Deep Blue Astrophotography – Imaging Galactic Shells
[/caption]As a professional astronomy journalist, I read a lot of science papers. It hasn't been all that long ago that I remember studying about galaxy groups - with the topic of dark matter and dwarf...
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Young Star Cluster In Disintegrated Galaxy Reveals First-Ever Intermediate...
[/caption]Score another first for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope! Along with observations taken with the Swift X-ray telescope, a team of astronomers have identified a young stellar cluster of stars...
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Galactic Archaeology: NGC 5907 – The Dragon Clash
[/caption]The sprawling northern constellation of Draco is home to a monumental galactic merger which left a singular spectacle - NGC 5907. Surrounded by an ethereal garment of wispy star trails and...
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FourStar Service: Red Galaxy Cluster Hides In Plain Sight
[/caption]Located some 10.5 billion light years away in the general direction of the constellation of Leo, the most distant cluster of red galaxies so far discovered has been hiding in plain sight......
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The Care And Feeding Of Teenage Galaxies… And By The Way, They Need Gas
[/caption]Got a teenager? Then you know the story. Go to look for your favorite bag of chips and they're gone. You eat one portion of meat and they need three. If you like those cookies, then you...
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Bright Stars Don’t Like to Be Alone
Caption: New research using data from European Southern Observatory telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope, has revealed that the hottest and brightest stars, known as O stars, are often found...
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Surprise! Galaxies Still Evolving in Present Universe
A giant spiral of gas dust and stars, Messier 101 spans 170,000 light-years and contains more than a trillion stars. Astronomers have uncovered a surprising trend in galaxy evolution where galaxies...
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Subaru Telescope Reveals Orderly Massive Galaxy Evolution
Nobody likes a sloppy COSMOS (Cosmological Evolution Survey) and astronomers utilizing the Fiber-Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope have put order into chaos through their...
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Milky Way Shakes, Rattles and Rolls…
For decades astronomers have puzzled over the many details concerning the formation of the Milky Way Galaxy. Now a group of scientists headed by Ivan Minchev from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics...
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What is Galactic Evolution?
On a clear night, you can make out the band of the Milky Way in the night sky. For millennia, astronomers looked upon it in awe, slowly coming to the realization that our Sun was merely one of billions...
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The First Results From The IllustrisTNG Simulation Of The Universe Has Been...
The first results of the IllustrisTNG Project have been published in three separate studies, and they’re shedding new light on how black holes shape the cosmos, and how galaxies form and grow. The...
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Hubble Captured a Photo of This Huge Spiral Galaxy, 2.5 Times Bigger than the...
This galaxy looks a lot like our own Milky Way galaxy. But while our galaxy is actively forming lots of new stars, this one is birthing stars at only half the rate of the Milky Way. It’s been mostly...
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Extreme galaxies depend on extreme conditions for their formation
Some galaxies are too small, and some galaxies are too big, while others are just right. A new survey of the nearby Virgo cluster has potentially revealed why extreme galaxies are the wrong size, and...
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This galaxy took only 500 million years to form
Galaxies are supposed to build up a very slowly, taking billions of years to acquire their vast bulk. But a newfound galaxy, appearing in the universe when it was only 1.8 billion years old, tells a...
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When Galaxies Collide, Black Holes Don’t Always Get the Feast They Were...
What happens when galaxies collide? Well, if any humans are around in about a billion years, they might find out. That’s when our Milky Way galaxy is scheduled to collide with our neighbour the...
View ArticleEarly Massive Galaxies ran out of gas, Shutting Down Their Star Formation
Galaxies that formed within the first few billion years after the Big Bang should have lived long, healthy lives. After all, they were born with rich supplies of cold hydrogen gas, exactly the fuel...
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A Detailed Scan of the Milky Way Finds Possible “Fossil” Spiral Arms
As we learn more about the cosmos, it’s interesting how some of the greatest discoveries continue to happen close to home. This is expected to continue well into the future, where observations of...
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Gaia Finds Ancient Satellite Galaxy Pontus Embedded in Milky Way
A recent study looked at stellar streams hidden in Gaia data, to uncover evidence of an ancient remnant dubbed Pontus. Our home galaxy the Milky Way is a monster with a ravenous past. In its estimated...
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Webb Sees Organic Molecules in the Hearts of Galaxies, Surprisingly Close to...
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched, one of its jobs was studying galactic formation and evolution. When we look around the Universe, today’s galaxies take the shape of grand spirals...
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