Astronomers believe the young Milky Way once swallowed a dwarf galaxy

Astronomers believe they've mapped an important sequence of events that shaped our galaxy 10 billion years ago. In a paper published in Nature Astronomy today, researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) share their findings that...

Messier 87 Galaxy has Swallowed another Galaxy


Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered a gigantic galaxy phenomenon. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed that the giant elliptical galaxy...

Researchers Use Gravitational Lens Ogling Huge Galaxy at the Edge of the Universe


Researchers have depicted a huge galaxy near the edge of the charted Universe with unprecedented detail using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) with the assistance of a 'natural...

NASA Discovers Galaxy that Shines As Bright As 300 Trillion Suns


A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy is the most luminous galaxy...

The Farthest Galaxy Discovered


Yale University and the University of California-Santa Cruz announced that an international team of astronomers led by the universities discovered an exceptionally luminous galaxy more than 13...