A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...
Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.
For decades, scientists have studied small satellite galaxies to better understand how the universe’s smallest galaxies evolve. Much of what is known about these galaxies comes from observing those ...
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this image of ... their first episodes of star formation to those of Milky Way satellite ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they ...
This is a wide-angle view of the distribution of known satellite galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years away. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to ...
A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...
ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This gorgeous new ... a place also renowned for its beauty. It is part of a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud, located 160,000 ...
This is a wide-angle view of the distribution of known satellite galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years away. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to ...