Galaxies by intermittent ring releases of stellar seeds from two attached galactic seeds (double disc galaxy, Type 3–1). (a) no rotation of the two galactic seeds Ω1.1 = 0, (b) —(e) rotation by Ω1.1 = ...

An international team of astrophysicists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI, USA) has discovered ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first picture released to the public showed off thousands of galaxies. At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little stars ...

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are the faintest type of galaxy in the universe. Typically containing just a few hundred to a thousand stars—compared with the hundreds of billions that make up the Milky ...

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The discovery included 30,000 examples of the rarest known galaxy shape. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Citizen scientists and ...

The standard cosmology can answer almost nothing about how the structure of a galaxy is formed. It expects a supermassive black hole at the center and dark matter in the halo to explain the ...

Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy CREDIT: ESO/DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY 2. An international team of astrophysicists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and ...

Astrophysicists have discovered the presence of transverse rotation (in the plane of the sky) in three dwarf spheroidal galaxies, a very faint type of galaxies and difficult to observe, which are ...