12 August 2020
Distant Milky Way look-alike is a breakthrough in the field of galaxy formation
... the team. Even though SPT0418-47 has a disc and other features similar to those of spiral galaxies we see today, they expect it to evolve into a galaxy very different from the Milky Way. SPT0418-47 is predicted to join the class of elliptical...
06 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
... Andromeda studies. Andromeda, also known as M31, is a spiral galaxy like our own, but is slightly larger in size and at ... in dark, clear skies. "Andromeda is the only large spiral galaxy where we can see individual X-ray binaries and study them ...
06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
... fraction of the oxygen that is five times ionized, which is the ion observed by COS." The CGM gas in spiral galaxies on the other hand reaches temperatures that are around fifty times hotter than the surface of the...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
... France Hawaii Telescope in four colour bands. Having multiple bands is useful as some galaxies are brighter in some bands than others. For example, spiral galaxies have a lot of young, blue stars so are brighter in some bands, whereas Elliptical...
29 March 2018
A see-through galaxy questions the need for dark matter
... of dark matter. In a theory that took root in the 1950s by astronomers examining the motions of stars in spiral galaxies, dark matter is currently believed to be an essential component of the Universe – making up a whopping ~80 percent of its mass...
04 January 2019
Merger with the LMC spells doom for our Solar System
... the LMC have revealed a bit of a problem. This once dwarf spiral galaxy is actually teeming with the unseen dark stuff – up to twice as ...Cloud with the Milky Way will wreak havoc with our galaxy, said lead author Dr Marius Cautun, a postdoctoral ...
