Feb 8, 2019 · Astronomers have long suspected that Andromeda will one day collide with the Milky Way, completely reshaping our cosmic neighbourhood. However, the three-dimensional …

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She began her research with our closest spiral, the Andromeda galaxy. Luckily, her theory was greeted with open minds as well as prestigious awards. Rubin believed that since galaxies are …

Jan 31, 2017 · NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes. …

New image release: Hubble’s weird perspective of a spiral galaxy Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a structure like our …

6 – Sunflower Galaxy (Messier 63) One of the prettiest spiral galaxies in the night sky. A large telescope with medium power shows it well. With the right aperture, usually ten inches or …

The elliptical galaxy is a beautiful cosmic oddity with a bright core wrapped in system of dark, swirling, thread-like filaments. NGC 4696 is a member of the Centaurus galaxy cluster, a …

On 16 Sunday December, comet 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest approaches of Earth in 70 years – and you may even be able to see it without a telescope Deep Space …

Jun 13, 2017 · Because of how far away the galaxy is, the light travels for billions of years, reach it is collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA By observing …