A new simulation released by NASA’s Ames Research Institute reveals a stunning vision of the evolution of a galaxy. Blue influx gases, white stars and red satellite galaxies are shown moving thousands ...

Hubble has turned its sharp gaze on a compact, intensely blue dwarf galaxy about 13 million light years away, revealing a ...

The stars in our galaxy exhibit a curious chemical division, but is this the norm in the Universe? A recent study shows that ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

A team of researchers at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) has created a new simulation of early galaxy formation. The simulation allows us to get a fascinating, albeit brief ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

In a feat of galactic archeology, astronomers are using ever more detailed information to trace the origin of our galaxy—and to learn about how other galaxies formed in the early stages of the ...

How does galaxy location drive galaxy structure and star formation? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical | Space ...

A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way galaxy, NGC 3576 is located about 9,000 light years from Earth. Such nebulas present a tableau of the drama of the evolution of massive ...

Indian scientists have discovered a 13.8-billion-year-old galaxy that resembles the Milky Way. The galaxy has been named ...

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