Science news articles about 'spiral 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 ...
  • Stars stop forming when big galaxies collide

    ... -years-long connecting the elliptical galaxy M86 and the spiral galaxy NGC 4438 in the Virgo ... disturbances in M86 are instead due to the collision with NGC 4438. "Like with a panoramic camera, the view ...
  • Nearby Galaxy Is Almost Milky Way Look-alike

    New image of spiral galaxy NGC 4945 shows star formation, active galactic center.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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