What the Hell’s Going on With This Space Cloud?
It looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud? Kingdom of the Planet of the…
Some of the Oldest Stars Were Just Found in Our Own Galaxy
Some stars in our very own Milky Way are some of the earliest ever seen, according to research published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Is Apple’s…
Astronomers Uncover Micro ‘Galaxy’ Orbiting the Milky Way
A collection of stars 30,000 light-years away is the faintest and lowest-mass Milky Way satellite ever found, according to the group of scientists who recently observed it. Oh, and it…
Webb Telescope Data Suggests There May Not Be a Ton of Supermassive Black Holes
A team of researchers scrutinizing the Extended Groth Strip, a region of space between the constellations Ursa Major and Boötes, saw fewer growing supermassive black holes and less dust than…
Amateur astronomer spots dwarf galaxy that computers missed
As machine learning approaches get more and more sophisticated, they are increasingly used in astronomy for difficult tasks like spotting dim and distant galaxy clusters. It can be tremendously helpful…
Hubble revisits a funky irregular dwarf galaxy
This week’s Hubble image shows an unusual, chaotic dwarf galaxy which defies categorization.
Hubble revisits an irregular dwarf galaxy bursting with young stars
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the quirky dwarf galaxy NGC 1705, an unusually shaped small galaxy located 17 million light-years away.
See where stars are born and where they die in the dwarf galaxy Sextans B
Dwarf galaxy Sextans B is only a few thousand light-years in diameter. But it hosts a whole range of astronomical phenomena squeezed into its diminutive size.