Latest about Galaxies
Our neighbor the Andromeda Galaxy shines overhead this week. Here's how to see it
Located at a distance of 2.5 million light-years, the Andromeda Galaxy is readily visible to the unaided eye on dark, clear nights. Here's where you should look this week.
Scientists just found a planet-forming disk beyond our Milky Way for the 1st time — yes, they're thrilled
Astronomers have spotted an accretion disk feeding matter to a young star and helping it grow in a galaxy outside the Milky Way for the first time.
Our universe's smallest galaxies hold the largest star factories. Here's why
Conditions within dwarf galaxies initially produce more stellar-mass black holes than supernova explosions.
Our Milky Way galaxy's stunning spiral structure appears to be an anomaly. But why?
A new supercomputer simulation reveals why spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are strikingly scarce in our pocket of the universe.
Distant 'teenage galaxies' surprise astronomers with unexpected heavy elements
Significant amounts of nickel observed in galaxies only two-to-three billion years after the Big Bang.
These small galaxies were shredded by their larger siblings — but they survived
The rare dwarf galaxies were likely victims of galactic cannibalism.
Star-birthing galaxies can hide supermassive black holes behind walls of dust
Feeding supermassive black holes, hosting objects that power quasars blasting out the most powerful light in the universe, could hide in galaxies behind thick clouds of dust.
Andromeda Galaxy: Facts about our closest galactic neighbor
Reference The Andromeda galaxy is the most distant object in the sky that you can see with your unaided eye. It's also on a collision course with our Milky Way.
