In research published today, Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the universe. The research, made possible by ...

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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has inspected a distant ...

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When they form, do stars "know" what kind of galaxy they will inhabit? Obviously that question is too anthropomorphic—stars have no minds. Nevertheless, fundamental differences appear to exist in the ...

Galaxies are collections of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter throughout the universe. Their size and scale can vary considerably. The Milky Way in which we live has 200 billion stars, which puts it ...

Having examined the queer and tumultuous circumstances under which galaxies were formed, we shall next see what type of galaxies there are and try to reason out why they belong to one type or the ...

The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1052 (at left) dominates the cluster it's a part of, though many other large galaxies are present, such as the giant spiral NGC 1042. Nearby to these galaxies are small ...

(Nanowerk News) In research published today ("The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the link between angular momentum and optical morphology"), Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding ...

Scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the Universe. The research, made possible by cutting-edge instrumentation, means that ...