NGC 922 is a peculiar galaxy in the southern constellation of Fornax. This beautiful image was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 7049 is a lenticular galaxy that spans about 150,000 light ...
The galaxy known as Centaurus A, or NGC 5128, is the closest active galaxy to Earth. It is located only 12 million light-years (a light-year is the distance light travels in one year ...
NGC 5128 can only be seen from the southern hemisphere, so the photographers travelled to Namibia Bence Tóth and Péter Feltót from Hungary were the winners in the Galaxies category. Their ...
At the lower frequency, for example, there is greater absorption of the radiation in galactic ionized hydrogen, while the coronal structure of some radio galaxies such as Centaurus A (NGC 5128 ...
Their picture shows the galaxy NGC 5128 and its relativistic jet - beams of radiation and particles travelling close to the speed of light. The galaxy can only be seen from the southern hemisphere ...