27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
...-ULS-1. M51-ULS-1 lies close to the heart of Messier 51 (M51), a spiral galaxy 31 million light years, that is also known as the Whirlpool galaxy. It is one of three external galaxies, the others being M101 and M104, that Di Stefano and colleagues...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... partnerships alike. Astronomy from the Moon the Pinwheel Galaxy M101 from the Chang’e-3 lander’s UV telescope compared...lander. This resulted in the first successful observation of a spiral galaxy known as M101, that took place from the lunar surface...
12 July 2019
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn't exist
...encircling a supermassive black hole at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away. ... that mimics the much larger discs found in extremely active galaxies. Of particular interest, this disc of material circling the...
25 July 2016
Supernova "Matryoshka" Discovered in Local Group
... has been much slower than simple models of galaxy evolution predicted. These bubbles are part of a widespread feedback process in galaxy disc and if it were not for feedback, spiral galaxies would have very short lives, and our own...
15 March 2016
Are our ideas of Dark Matter wrong?
... matter really is. The search for dark matter started when scientists studying extragalactic systems such as spiral galaxies and clusters of galaxies found that these objects were not behaving as expected. When Newton's Law of Gravity were applied...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... the origin of the obscuring material and follow in real time how it engulfs the black hole.” Located in a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Eridanus, the event, dubbed AT2019qiz, is the closest such flare recorded to date. AT2019qiz was...
