A fter only one year of operations, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission has begun to unravel the mystery of why ...
In its first year of full operations, the Euclid space telescope has quietly built one of the most ambitious maps of the ...
We might be very wrong about the shape of our galaxy. As Space.com notes, astronomers believe that the majority of known galaxies generally fall into one of three categories: elliptical, irregular, ...
Earth’s galactic home used to have a different shape. Thanks to a trove of images from heritage space telescopes, astronomers are learning more about the Milky Way’s past, and its future. Though no ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is known for its famous, sparkly, spiral. But we aren’t the only ones with a glittery arm. Known as spiral galaxies, this class of galaxy is known to make up an ...
A collage of nine by five squares containing galaxies of many different shapes and viewed in different orientations. Photo Courtesy of ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA March 19 (UPI) --The European ...
The standard cosmology can answer almost nothing about how the structure of a galaxy is formed. It expects a supermassive black hole at the center and dark matter in the halo to explain the ...
After only two years of observations, ESA’s space telescope Euclid is shedding new light on a long-standing question about the remarkable diversity of galaxies in the Universe. Just like flowers, ...
Astronomers have been gazing at the Triangulum galaxy for centuries. But they’ve never seen it quite like this. On Jan. 11 at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, a team ...
ESO 415-19 is a galaxy with a past, but we’re not here to judge. At some point in its history, ESO 415-19 had a close encounter with another galaxy, and it’s never been the same since. The gravity ...