A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

Use an eyepiece that gives a 1° field of view and enjoy the wide view of NGC 2169 against the Milky Way’s myriad background stars ... target is the Dusty Hand Galaxy. Astronomers refer to ...

The first decades of the twentieth century, among the most productive in the history of astronomy ... that the Milky Way was only one star system (or galaxy) among myriad others.

all with the Department of Physics and Astronomy. More information: Kristen B. W. McQuinn et al, The Ancient Star Formation History of the Extremely Low-mass Galaxy Leo P: An Emerging Trend of a ...

A new study claims to have discovered about 200 ancient stars in the Milky ... the outer limits of our galaxy,” said Raja GuhaThakurta, professor and chair of astronomy and astrophysics at ...

Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of ... participants of the rapid response workshop on the gravitational wave background explored discrepancies between experimental results and theoretical ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

For Nature Astronomy, he primarily covers stars, the Galaxy and local galaxies, including transients such as fast radio bursts, gamma-ray bursts and tidal disruption events. Paul has been at ...

Based on what scientists thought they knew about fast radio bursts, referred to in astronomy as FRBs, this type of galaxy should not contain the kind of star long thought to produce such bursts.