Galaxies

Bears, stars, Battlestar Galactica

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to eventually create a home for us in it."

"Virgil has two personalities, its 'good' side – a typical young galaxy quietly forming stars. But Virgil transforms into the host of a heavily obscured supermassive black hole, pouring out immense quantities of energy."

The European Space Agency and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently visited the spiral galaxy NGC 3370

A new study used the James Webb Space Telescope to study how our universe's first galaxies were.

Two galaxies connected by a bridge of hydrogen gas are falling into the Virgo Cluster.

The discovery of a rare runaway galaxy suggests some isolated systems were shaped by past group interactions before being flung into solitude.

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion.

The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and when they collide.