Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...
Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are massive, with plasma jets powered by supermassive black holes at their centers, stretching ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...
When you point a telescope toward the Pegasus constellation, you can discover a scene where the Milky Way stars and distant ...
The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...
Ever since I was a kid leaving for school, my mom would repeat to me, “Your raincoat, your backpack, your water bottle, and you!” I grew up with this habit of double-checking I had everything ...
Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time ...