Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...
Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Kristen McQuinn Most small galaxies that stopped making ...
Leo P, a galaxy once dormant, has reawakened to form stars again, offering new clues about the universe's earliest galaxies.
The scientists behind this discovery say these factors make this dwarf galaxy grouping particularly intriguing. The arrangement may be as challenging as it is beautiful, potentially posing a ...
Using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), an international team of astronomers have performed deep optical ...
Sculptor A, one of three newly discovered dwarf galaxies - and unrelated to the well-known Sculptor spiral galaxy - is visible here as a faint accumulation of stars beyond several bright stars in the ...
Moreover, there is less than a 0.004% chance that a dwarf galaxy would be part of a group containing at least four such objects. However, now a team of astronomers led by Yonsei University's ...
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 ...