Some astronomical discoveries begin with powerful telescopes pointed at distant corners of the universe. Others begin much closer to home, with a teenager willing to spend hours combing through ...
An undergraduate astrophysics student at UC Berkeley has found three unusual galaxies—cataloged as Shapiro Dwarf Galaxies I, ...
In his 18 years of life, freshman astrophysics student Julian Shapiro has discovered what some astronomers spend entire ...
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures dwarf galaxies NGC 4490 on the left and NGC 4485 glowing at the upper right, connected by a glowing bridge of gas and dust dotted with bright ...
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 ...
Record-breaking detection: FRB 20240304B traveled over 10 billion years, doubling the previous distance record for fast radio bursts. Unexpected host galaxy: Webb found a tiny, metal-poor, ...
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have hunted for "wandering" black holes drifting through dwarf galaxies. The discovery of these rogue black holes in such ...
A new study of diffuse dwarf galaxies is challenging the prevailing galaxy formation model within the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) framework, leading to a proposed new model of dark matter. Under ...
(Left) Radio galaxy image of neutral hydrogen in and around the NGC 4532 / DDO 137 using ASKAP. (RIGHT) An optical image of the galaxy from the Legacy Surveys. (Image Credit: ICRAR and D.Lang ...
This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. A high-resolution colour image showing the ...
The Magellanic Clouds and the Auxiliary Telescopes at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Only six of the nine newly discovered objects are present in this image. The other three ...
Extragalactic globular clusters millions of light-years away are hiding in your astroimages. Here’s how to find them.
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