Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...
The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal for Astronomy to a University of Oxford professor.
The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal for Astronomy to a University of Oxford professor for his work on the structure and evolution of galaxies. Professor James Binney ...
In September 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope captured this collision in progress between an elliptical ... Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaître discovered that light from distant galaxies ...
Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...