Telescope captures a cute, fluffy galaxy
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is a swirling maw of raw power, measuring 50,000 light-years across. So why on earth do astronomers call it "fluffy"?read more
View ArticleDark matter theory 'may be wrong'
Scientists’ predictions of the formation and characteristics of dark matter are shaken by research into dwarf galaxies surrounding the Milky Way.
View ArticleAstronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet
Don’t get too close. Astronomers are reporting that they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest black holes yet found in the universe, abyssal yawns 10 times the size of our solar system into...
View ArticleGiant Black Hole Shreds and Swallows Helpless Star
Some people seem born under an unlucky star. But some stars are equally unlucky themselves. Astronomers have spotted a star in another galaxy plunging toward a giant black hole and being ripped to...
View ArticleAndromeda Galaxy to smack into Milky Way
Hubble space telescope observations suggest that another large galaxy will collide with our own Milky Way in about 4 billion years.read more
View ArticleStar births seen on cosmic scale in distant galaxy
Scientists have located a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about...
View ArticleHubbles takes new Deep Field Image, 13.2 billion years into the past.
The eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) focuses on a small patch of the constellation Fornax, containing some 5,500 galaxies. The image was culled from 10 years of photos of the same region of space shown in the...
View ArticleRelatively close Earth-like planet discovered
Scientists have spent years hunting for Earth-like planets orbiting stars elsewhere in the galaxy. Now they have found one that's a relative stone's-throw away. The so-called exoplanet — a planet...
View ArticleX-ray probe spots black hole's blast
For years, astronomers have known about the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, but these pictures from NASA's NuSTAR telescope show a rare view of the usually sleeping giant...
View ArticleAstronomers Find The Largest Known Spiral Galaxy
Based on information from the GALEX program, astronomers have crowned spiral galaxy NGC 6872 the largest known galaxy in the universe.
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