Understanding the evolution of radio galaxies is crucial for unravelling the broader processes that shape the universe.
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
Lior Shamir, a computer scientist in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, published a study of ...
Since its launch a little over three years ago, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the ...
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...
He calculated M31’s distance as a prodigious 900,000 light ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae.
Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...