In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

What it is: The galaxy NGC 4694, a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster Where it is: 54 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Virgo When it was shared: Sept. 30, 2024 Why it's so ...

Another is the product of Chandra's nearly 10 hours of observing the planet Jupiter. Chandra ... Chandra charts an elliptical orbit around Earth, traveling as close as 6,000 miles and as far ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an awe-inspiring new image of the iconic Sombrero Galaxy, known formally as Messier 104. The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might have heard that galaxies come in different types, classified based on their shapes. There are elliptical galaxies, which are smooth and featureless ...

The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical ... most extreme planets in the galaxy. These scorching worlds are as massive as Jupiter, and they swing wildly close ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Observations of other galactic collisions and computer modeling have provided astronomers with more evidence that mergers of spiral galaxies create elliptical galaxies.Once the pair come together ...

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa ... The first is a spiral galaxy; the second is an elliptical galaxy.

My collaborators and I have just tackled one of astrophysics’ enduring mysteries: how massive elliptical galaxies can form. Now, for the first time, we have solid observational evidence that ...