... provide better estimates of the rate of star formation in nearby galaxies, Bower said. Radio emissions from supernovas also ... on April 8 in M82, a small irregular galaxy located nearly 12 million light ...
... about a diet! By resolving, for the first time, features of an individual star in a neighboring galaxy, ESO's VLT has allowed astronomers to determine that it weighs almost half of what was previously ...
... . This survey will also help to compare galaxies in different environments, both crowded and isolated, as well as to compare relatively nearby galaxies with more distant ones (at higher redshifts).
... suggests that many of these 'metal-poor' star clusters may have been stolen from nearby dwarf galaxies, which also contain globulars deficient in heavy elements".
Studying globular star clusters is ...
Astronomers have found the least luminous galaxy known, but it's massive. The reason: It's loaded with invisible matter.
... , both in space and on the ground, nearly all of which was from archives. Because this object was found in a nearby galaxy, making it relatively easy to study, the public archives of these telescopes ...
The detailed study, called the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST) program, explored a ... the stars appear blurred together. In contrast, the galaxies observed in this new survey are close enough to ...
... region of a massive galaxy, and we know such fields are stronger toward the centers of nearby galaxies. Also, the field we see may have been amplified by a shock wave caused by the collision of two ...
Astronomers studying new images of a nearby galaxy cluster have found evidence that high-speed collisions ... seen or inferred any connection between the two galaxies located approximately 50 million light ...
Galaxy 3C321's supermassive black hole is shooting a jet of particles nearly at the speed of light toward a nearby galaxy.
... too hot for stars to form.
Another galaxy that the astronomers studied showed the opposite effect ... young, massive stars, rarely observed in nearby galaxies. Comparisons with computer simulations showed ...
... have used new computer modeling techniques to discover that the black hole at the heart of M87, one the largest nearby giant galaxies, is two to three times more massive than previously thought.
... blocked by gas and dust. A new survey of the radio sky by the Allen Telescope Array promises to discover more radio supernovas and give a better idea of the rate of star formation in dusty galaxies.
New image of spiral galaxy NGC 4945 shows star formation, active galactic center.
... the constellation Andromeda, is the largest and closest spiral galaxy to our own. "Swift reveals about 20,000 ... too long for another one."
"Swift is surveying nearby galaxies like M31 so astronomers ...
