Since its launch five years ago, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer has photographed hundreds of millions of galaxies in ultraviolet light.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 18th anniversary with a new collection of images showcasing colliding galaxies, including some captured by JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.
In the early 1900s, Edwin Hubble made the startling discovery that our Milky Way galaxy is not alone.
... would have to grow five times bigger, “While they could get larger by colliding with other galaxies, such collisions may not be the complete answer,” he said.
Astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space ...
... impressive sights in the night sky. They are considered by scientists as the archetypal merging galaxy system and are used as a standard against which to validate theories about galaxy evolution. An ...
New results, which indicate galaxies are twice as luminous as they appear to us in the sky, resolve a longstanding problem with the energy budget of the cosmos.
This image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these ...
Proof of a relationship between spiral galaxies' arms and the size of their central black holes is among the latest cosmic findings revealed by new images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
... have shown that the process of star formation in areas of debris formed when two galaxies collide is essentially the same as star formation inside galaxies, meaning that the intergalactic medium can ...
More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched
together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy.
Astronomers have shown that debris formed when two galaxies collide makes a simpler, more accessible laboratory for studying the process of star formation.
... a key database for studies of galaxy formation and evolution. This survey will also help to compare galaxies in different environments, both crowded and isolated, as well as to compare relatively ...
The Milky Way Galaxy has lost weight. A lot of weight. About a trillion Suns' worth, according to an international team of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II), whose discovery has ...
The newfound starburst galaxy dubbed "Baby Boom" can churn out a startling 4,000 new stars a year, compared to our Milky Way's mere ten, scientists say.
Magnetic fields build up in galaxies much faster than previously thought, a new study found.
