Tag Archives: Local Group

Messier 87 Galaxy has Swallowed another Galaxy

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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...

NASA Discovers Galaxy that Shines As Bright As 300 Trillion Suns

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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

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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...

Astronomer Confirms Cold River Of Hydrogen Flowing Into Galaxy’s Hungry Maw

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There are many more things in outer space that humans can’t see than those they can detect and one phenomenon that has been impossible to find until now is the stream of hydrogen that feeds galaxies...

Astronomers Still Puzzle Over ‘Low Surface Brightness’ Galaxies

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Our own Milky Way and Andromeda, its nearest spiral neighbor, are stunningly beautiful examples of High Surface Brightness (HSB) galaxies. Both grand spirals represent the sort of brilliantly-...
    






New Most Distant Galaxy of the Universe is Discovered

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Astronomers have discovered a new most distant galaxy yet called z8_GND_5296. This new galaxy is located at a distance of 30 billion light-years. Hubble Space Telescope is used to discover this new...