Jun 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to the findings of a study published online in the Astrophysical Journal, a dwarf galaxy named Segue 2 is the least massive galaxy in the known...

May 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...

Apr 3, 2013 by Sci-News.com

U.S. astrophysicists report computer simulations that seem to resolve long-standing questions about the origin and life history of spiral arms in disk...

Apr 2, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068, also known as Messier 77. The spiral...

Mar 14, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the dry and cloudless Atacama Desert...

Feb 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using data from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array and ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray satellites has been able...

Feb 27, 2013 by Sci-News.com

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found tantalizing evidence for the existence of a shell of stars that...

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers suggests a supernova remnant, called W49B, contains the youngest black hole formed in our Milky Way Galaxy. This image...

Feb 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new view of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106...