In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
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Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and ...
A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found the dimmest and smallest satellite galaxy yet—Andromeda XXXV—forcing them ...
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These dwarf galaxies in the Hydra cluster are baffling scientists: 'We found something we didn't expect'"By putting together the individual results, like in a puzzle, we reconstruct the formation history of these systems." ...
While many galaxies visibly display two or three rings of stars, a galaxy called LEDA 1313424 — 567 million light-years distant in the constellation Pisces — appears to have nine, caused by a ...
By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very strange young cosmos ...
Hubble's study reveals Andromeda experienced major galactic collisions, unlike Milky Way. Its satellite galaxies show unusual ...
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