UGC 10214, also known as the Tadpole Galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy exhibiting a 280,000 light-year long tidal tail indicative of galactic interaction. Observation of the Tadpole Galaxy (magnitude ...
A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside, reports tiny satellite galaxies of the Milky Way can be used to test fundamental properties of “dark matter” — nonluminous ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a new kind of galactic portrait, revealing a luminous thread of gas and newborn stars stretching between two small, colliding galaxies. The image turns a ...
About 50 tiny galaxies surround our home galaxy, the Milky Way. New research suggests that one of them, known as Crater II, may consist of dark matter particles that interact with each other. | Credit ...
Lister Staveley-Smith receives research funding from ICRAR, the Western Australian government, and the University of Western Australia. Most of the ordinary matter in the universe is hydrogen. But ...
Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The newly discovered structure exhibits ...
In what appears to be a masterful illusion, astronomers at Gemini Observatory have imaged two nearly identical spiral galaxies in Virgo, 90 million light years distant, in the early stages of a gentle ...
The Milky Way satellite galaxy, named Crater II, may consist of self-interacting dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...