The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

Dwarf galaxies may contain less than ... as well as our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Older and scarcer than spirals, elliptical galaxies have shapes ranging from long, narrow ...

In just 25 images, a team led by Francine Marleau at the University of Innsbruck identified 2,674 dwarf galaxies. Her group used a semi-automated approach to scan the data and compiled a catalogue of ...

They included Kowal’s Object (which, Barbara informed me, is a dwarf galaxy in Sagittarius), the galaxy ... black hole at the center of this giant elliptical galaxy. (Nothing can escape from ...

By analyzing the available observational data, astronomers from the Tribhuvan University in Nepal and elsewhere have ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been observed in the past." ...

Understanding dwarf galaxy dynamics is key because they're the most abundant type of galaxy in the cosmos. Dwarf galaxy nuclei contain hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of stars ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.