Tag: Galaxies
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N159: A Mighty Star-Forming Cloud in the Large Magellanic Cloud — Hubble’s Week in Space
Hubble’s Picture of the Week: Spotlight on N159 In its ongoing series of “Picture of the Week,” the Hubble Space Telescope turns the lens toward some of the most dramatic stellar nurseries in our galactic neighborhood. The latest selection highlights N159, a colossal star-forming cloud in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Located roughly 160,000 light-years…
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What Hubble Reveals About Markarian 178: A Dwarf Galaxy in Ursa Major
Big Bear, Big Stars: Hubble’s Glimpse of Markarian 178 On the final day of 2025, the Hubble Space Telescope added another striking image to its gallery of the universe’s wonders by capturing Markarian 178 (Mrk 178), a compact dwarf galaxy perched in the constellation Ursa Major. This ultraviolet-bright galaxy belongs to a distinctive class of…
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Giant Galaxies in 3D: Brian May’s Bold New Astronomy Book
David’s Eye View of the Cosmos: A New Kind of Galactic Photography When music icon and astrophysicist-in-waiting Sir Brian May announces a project that merges astronomy with art, curiosity spikes. His latest book takes readers on a journey not just through the vastness of space, but into the way we see it. Through painstaking 3D…
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3D Galaxy Photography: Brian May’s Spectacular Stereo Images
Introduction: A New Look at the Cosmos Guitar legend and astrophysicist-in-winder, Sir Brian May, is shaking up how we see the universe. In his latest book, May takes readers on an immersive journey through the history, mystery, and evolution of galaxies—not through traditional flat pictures, but through painstakingly crafted 3D stereo photographs. The result is…
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When a Gassy Baby Galaxy Throws a Tantrum: JWST Reveals Early Universe Chaos
Cosmic Baby Steps: A Bright, Gas-Rich Galaxy Emerges In the vast expanse of the early universe, a baby galaxy is making a loud impression. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has identified a bright, compact galaxy whose unusually high gas content and rapid star formation look like a toddler’s…
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A Baby Galaxy Trashing The Early Universe: JWST Spots a Gassy Tantrum
New Window on the Dawn of Galaxies In a striking observation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified a bright, very young galaxy exhibiting unusually vigorous gas activity in the universe’s infancy. This discovery provides fresh clues about how the earliest galaxies formed, grew, and hammered out the first waves of stars across the…
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Oxygen Detected in Early Galaxies by Menelaos Raptis
Groundbreaking Discovery in the Early Universe A Greek physics student, Menelaos Raptis, studying at Franklin & Marshall College, has announced a breakthrough in our understanding of the early universe. By scrutinizing light from galaxies that formed roughly 12 billion years ago, Raptis and his collaborators have detected oxygen in the interstellar medium of two distant…
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Andromeda Quenching Satellites Before They Fall In
Introduction: A New Twist on Galaxy Growth For decades, astronomers have treated galaxy mergers as dramatic, defining moments in a galaxy’s life. The standard picture has been two or more systems meeting, merging, and leaving behind a larger, more massive structure with bursts of star formation. Yet new observations of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) suggest…
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What 1.2 Million Galaxies Taught Us in One Year with Euclid
Introduction: A Remarkable First Year The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has completed its first year of operations, surveying about 1.2 million galaxies across vast stretches of the universe. The results are already reshaping our understanding of how galaxies acquire their varied shapes and how those shapes relate to the large‑scale structure of the…
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Euclid’s Year in View: What 1.2 Million Galaxies Teach Us About Galaxy Shapes
One Year, A Vast View of the Galaxy Population In just twelve months of operation, the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has compiled a galaxy census of 1.2 million galaxies. This unprecedented dataset is not merely a bigger catalog; it is a new lens on how galaxies grow, collide, and settle into distinct shapes.…