For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are ...

Telescopes don't come any smaller than the Dwarf 3, but does its portability come at the cost of image quality? Read the ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

Leo P, a galaxy once dormant, has reawakened to form stars again, offering new clues about the universe's earliest galaxies. This research, aided by cutting-edge telescope technology, suggests ...

Most small galaxies that stopped making new stars in the early universe never resumed operations. Something caused their ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P.

Something caused their celestial factories to shutter. The dwarf galaxy, known as Leo P and about 5.3 million light-years from Earth, is offering new insights into galaxy evolution and the factors ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Deep optical observations of the dwarf galaxy NGC 300 revealed a stellar stream, shells, and a globular cluster in its halo. A large stellar stream, extending ...

Leo P, a dwarf galaxy some 5.3 million light years from Earth, was discovered by McQuinn and other scientists in 2013. The celestial structure is far enough away from the Local Group, a clump of ...

"These structures likely originated from a tiny galaxy that was pulled apart and absorbed into NGC 300." Together, these findings clearly reveal that even dwarf galaxies can build stellar halos ...

Leo P, a dwarf galaxy some 5.3 million light years from Earth, was discovered by McQuinn and other scientists in 2013. The celestial structure is far enough away from the Local Group, a clump of ...

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 ...