26 September 2016
A potentially disrupting satellite system around the LMC has been observed for the first time by astronomers
... from The Dark Energy Survey (DES) that has helped discover more than a dozen new candidate dwarf galaxies and globular clusters in the last few years. And it appears that the surveys, which also includes...
25 April 2018
New Gaia data reveals details on over 1.6 billion stars
... community later today, will take the census of our Galaxy to an entirely new level, as it includes three-... this is actually a dwarf galaxy being torn apart in the tidal field of our own galaxy; it is called the Sagittarius dwarf. We knew about its...
03 November 2021
Astronomers spot the most distant detection of water in a star-forming galaxy
... young, logic suggests that the first galaxies to form would be small, like some of the dwarf galaxies we see in the nearby Universe today. Eventually these galaxies would merge to become much larger galaxies that came to dominate the Universe after...
16 February 2018
New study shows Andromeda is not that big after all
... 4.5 billion years and this titanic of mergers is likely to produce a giant elliptical galaxy. It is also expected that our galaxy “will eat” two nearby dwarf galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds sometime in the future too. "It's really...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
...release of data from the Survey includes information on about 400 million astronomical objects, including distant galaxies billions of light-years away as well as numerous dwarf galaxy neighbours of the Milky Way. When one of these small neighbouring...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... explosions. In concert with other telescopes around the world, Arecibo located the source of the signal, in 2016, in a dwarf galaxy three billion light-years distant. Building on its earlier work with gravitational waves, Arecibo supported the...
