List: Galaxies | Curated by Michele Diodati

Nov 15, 2021
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The Gas Supplies of the First GalaxiesIn 2016 the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged galaxies at the very limits of the observable universe
Nov 15, 2021
Nov 15, 2021
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The Universe as a Time MachineEverything we see is always an image of the past
Nov 14, 2021
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Nov 14, 2021
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How Are the Arms of Spiral Galaxies Formed?The theory of density waves
Nov 3, 2021
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Nov 3, 2021
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NGC 4889 and Its Huge Central Black HoleThe largest galaxy in the Coma cluster hides a central black hole of several billion solar masses
Oct 30, 2021
Oct 30, 2021
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NGC 4874 and Its 30,000 GlobularsAn elliptical supergiant in the constellation Coma Berenices guarded by an enormous number of globular clusters
Oct 29, 2021
Oct 29, 2021
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The Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Ever DiscoveredIt is called CL J1001 + 0220, and its light reaches us after having traveled for 11.2 billion years
Oct 26, 2021
Oct 26, 2021
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Dragonfly 44The dark galaxy
Oct 23, 2021
Oct 23, 2021
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IC 2497 and Its Luminescent “Blob”Hanny’s Voorwerp, discovered by chance in 2007, is a mass of intergalactic gas with a faint luminescence
Oct 19, 2021
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NGC 2337An irregular galaxy in the Northern constellation Lynx
Oct 18, 2021
Oct 18, 2021
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The Incredible Stellar Density of the Galactic CenterA star field near the center of the Milky Way contains about 2.8 million stars packed into 0.6 square degrees of sky
Oct 14, 2021
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Oct 14, 2021
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Galaxies EverywhereThe greatest legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope is the ocean of galaxies visible in its deep fields images
Oct 13, 2021
Oct 13, 2021
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The “Nail” GalaxiesA perspective effect of galactic size
Oct 9, 2021
Oct 9, 2021
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Star Factories in the Distant UniverseRegions of star formation in the distant galaxy SMM J2135–0102
Oct 8, 2021
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Oct 8, 2021
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Young blue stars in the Andromeda coreIn 2005, astronomers identified the source of a mysterious blue light right in the center of our neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
Oct 2, 2021
Oct 2, 2021
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NGC 5728A spiral galaxy with an obscured active nucleus
Sep 29, 2021
Sep 29, 2021
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ESO 306–17The most massive fossil group known is dominated by a supergiant elliptical galaxy that spans over a million light-years
Sep 26, 2021
Sep 26, 2021
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400 million stars in a super-dense dwarf galaxyM60-UCD1 is the galaxy with the highest stellar density in the local universe
Sep 26, 2021
Sep 26, 2021
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NGC 1365The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy
Sep 20, 2021
Sep 20, 2021
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Messier 96An asymmetrically shaped spiral galaxy
Sep 19, 2021
Sep 19, 2021
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M51, the Whirlpool GalaxyThe Whirlpool Galaxy owes its name to the iconic shape of its two large spiral arms.
Sep 14, 2021
Sep 14, 2021