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Galaxies are thought to form and grow by collisions and mergers, and elliptical galaxies may be the ultimate result of this ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
Two distant planets lie 1° apart in the morning sky, visible together in the same field of view through binoculars or a telescope.
In a groundbreaking study recently published on the arXiv preprint server, researchers have proposed two innovative ...
Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors. The dazzling panoramic shot released Wednesday of the Sculptor galaxy is so detailed ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors. The dazzling panoramic shot released Wednesday of the Sculptor ...
Saturn, the moon and Neptune will be at their closest in Earth 's sky at 9:11 p.m. EDT on June 18 (0111 GMT on June 19), at which time the trio will be separated by a mere 2.58 degrees while below ...
This galaxy glows meekly at magnitude 14.4 and spans a mere 3.6’ by 0.8’, so a dark sky and a telescope of 10- or 12-inches is normally required to spot it.
Most galaxies we see today are quiet, well-structured, and orderly. But not all play by those rules. Some are wild, chaotic, and packed with stars that are forming at a furious pace. These rare, ...
Both galaxies can be visible in the night sky: The Milky Way, which stretches across the night sky from the constellations Cassiopeia to Cygnus, and the Andromeda Galaxy appears above this 3000 ...
The background elliptical galaxy NGC 4860 can be seen in the upper left. The stellar distributions coincident with the western H 𝛼 blobs, B1 and B2, are indicated. Credit: arXiv (2025).