News tagged with spiral galaxy
Related topics: galaxies , milky way , hubble space telescope , star formation , stars
Forming the present-day spiral galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a demographic census of galaxy types and shapes from a time before the Earth and the sun existed, to the present ...
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Black Hole Hunters Set New Distance Record
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have detected, in another galaxy, a stellar-mass black hole much farther away than any other previously known. With a mass above fifteen times ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Snowflake-Shaped Galaxy From Hubble Helps Ring in the New Year
(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its Hubble Heritage program, NASA has released an image, taken by a team led by UA astronomer Rodger Thompson, of a galaxy that resembles a snowflake.
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Galaxies throughout the universe are ablaze with star birth. But for a nearby, small spiral galaxy, the star-making party is almost over.
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique using near-infrared images, obtained with ESO’s 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), allows astronomers to see through the opaque dust lanes of the giant cannibal galaxy ...
Nov 20, 2009 |
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NGC 4710 galaxy: Baffling boxy bulge (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as many people are surprised to find themselves packing on unexplained weight around the middle, astronomers find the evolution of bulges in the centres of spiral galaxies puzzling. A ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel
(PhysOrg.com) -- The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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University of Utah celebrates telescope's 'first light'
(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11 symposium and reception ...
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quite a few distant galaxies turn out to be cosmic delivery rooms. Large numbers of massive stars are born in the hearts of these starburst galaxies, and later explode as supernovae. In the ...
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Stripped down: Hubble highlights two galaxies that are losing it
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ram pressure is the drag force that results when something moves through a fluid -- much like the wind you feel in your face when bicycling, even on a still day -- and occurs in this context ...
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Swift makes best-ever ultraviolet portrait of Andromeda Galaxy
In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet. The ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Astronomers unveil an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project — a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile — has just been released ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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NGC 4945: The Milky Way's not-so-distant Cousin
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO has released a striking new image of a nearby galaxy that many astronomers think closely resembles our own Milky Way. Though the galaxy is seen edge-on, observations of NGC 4945 suggest ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Is the Milky Way doomed to be destroyed by galactic bombardment? Probably not
(PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will one day tear apart the disk of the Milky ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.
Jul 23, 2009 |
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