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Spectacular ‘halos’ of spiral galaxies
Composite image of an edge-on spiral galaxy with a radio halo produced by fast-moving particles in the galaxy’s magnetic field. In this image, the large, grey-blue area is a single image formed by...
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Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels: researchers compile the largest...
A small section of the Milky Way photo showing Eta Carinae.Credit: Copyright Chair of Astrophysics, RUB Astronomers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have compiled the largest astronomical image to date....
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New component of Milky Way discovered
Astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory have discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky Way. By mapping out the locations of a class of stars that vary in...
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First gamma-ray pulsar detected in another galaxy
Researchers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered the first gamma-ray pulsar in a galaxy other than our own. The object sets a new record for the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar...
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Discovery measures ‘heartbeats’ of distant galaxy’s stars
In many ways stars are like living beings. They’re born; they live; they die. And they even have a heartbeat. Using a novel technique, astronomers have detected thousands of stellar “pulses” in the...
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Earliest Giant Galaxies: The Birth of Monsters
ESO’s VISTA survey telescope has spied a horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy. By discovering and studying more of these galaxies than ever...
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Faintest galaxy from the early universe, 400 million years after the big bang
Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years after the big...
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Gamma rays detected from galaxy halfway across the visible universe
In April 2015, after traveling for about half the age of the universe, a flood of powerful gamma rays from a distant galaxy slammed into Earth’s atmosphere. That torrent generated a cascade of light —...
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UW astronomers find a rare supernova ‘impostor’ in a nearby galaxy
The galaxy NGC 300, home to the unusual system Binder and her colleagues studied. The spiral galaxy is over 6 million light years away.NASA/JPL-Caltech/OCIW Breanna Binder, a University of Washington...
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Discovery of a fast radio burst reveals ‘missing matter’ in the universe
An international research team including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany used a combination of radio and optical telescopes to identify the precise...
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