Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

4 - Mars, Castor and Pollux. In late April Mars can be seen ... and merge with the Milky Way some 4.5 billion years from now ...

“The bottom line is there’s been no big movement,” Blair Brandt, GOP fundraiser and husband to Margit; he’s also her chief ...

On an observing table, Barbara had set up The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies, the Uranometria 2000 ... massive black hole at the center of this giant elliptical galaxy. (Nothing can escape from inside ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC ...

the system will most likely evolve into a compact elliptical galaxy. More information: Daya Nidhi Chhatkuli et al, SDSS J134313.15+364457.5: Forming Compact Elliptical through the Merger ...