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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Webb finds weird 'platypus' galaxies with rare features
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a tiny set of galaxies in the early universe that look deceptively simple but behave in ways astronomers have never seen together before. The team that ...
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