Science news articles about 'galaxy ngc'

  • A Large Spiral Galaxy, NGC 7331, In All Its Splendor

    ... spiral galaxy NGC 7331, in Pegasus, can be seen with small telescopes under dark skies as ... spot. It is an island universe similar to our own Galaxy (or maybe somewhat larger) and placed at a distance ...
  • Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy

    ... giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of the immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic ...
  • Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy

    ... giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of these immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic ...
  • Stars stop forming when big galaxies collide

    ... -years-long connecting the elliptical galaxy M86 and the spiral galaxy NGC 4438 in the Virgo ... yet for high-speed collisions between large galaxies, and it suggests a plausible alternative to black holes ...
  • Exceptionally Deep View Of Strange Galaxy

    ... new image of an unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster has been created from data taken ... Space Telescope. It reveals fine details of the galaxy, NGC 4921, as well as an extraordinary rich ...
  • Dramatically Backlit Dust In Giant Galaxy

    A new Hubble image highlights striking swirling dust lanes and glittering globular clusters in oddball galaxy NGC 7049.
  • NGC 4945: The Milky Way's not-so-distant cousin

    ... telescope is sufficient for skygazers to spot this remarkable galaxy. NGC 4945's designation comes from its entry ... portrait of NGC 4945 comes courtesy of the Wide Field Imager (WFI) instrument at the 2 ...
  • NGC 4945: The Milky Way's not-so-distant cousin

    ... of Centaurus (the Centaur), a modest telescope is sufficient for skygazers to spot this remarkable galaxy. NGC 4945's designation comes from its entry number in the New General Catalogue compiled by ...
  • Stripped down: Hubble highlights 2 galaxies that are losing it

    ... , which then sweeps out gas from within the galaxies. The spiral galaxy NGC 4522 is located some 60 ... the cluster results in strong winds across the galaxy as the gas within is left behind. Scientists ...
  • Supernova birth seen for first time

    ... While looking at another object in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, using NASA’s orbiting Swift ... Soderberg. “We were looking at another, older supernova in the galaxy, when the one now known as SN 2008D went ...
  • A new method to weigh giant black holes

    ... of hot gas in the center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, scientists have determined the mass of ... hole has on the hot gas near the center of the galaxy. As gas slowly settles towards the black ...
  • A novel way to weigh giant black holes

    ... ray Observatory. By measuring a peak in the temperature of hot gas in the centre of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, scientists have determined the mass of the galaxy's supermassive black hole...
  • The quiet explosion

    ... of X-rays coming from within the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, located 90 million light ... a supernova that had exploded the previous year in the same galaxy, but the burst of X-rays came from another location ...
  • Hubble Images Solve Galactic Filament Mystery

    Astronomers have a new explanation for why filaments emanating from galaxy NGC 1275 can persist for millions of years.
  • Infrared echoes give NASA's Spitzer a supernova flashback

    ... a 5-minute-long X-ray pulse from galaxy NGC 2770. A few days later, a new supernova -- designated SN 2008D -- appeared in the galaxy. The infrared echoes from Cas A arise from dust clouds about ...

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