Germangendra is like the earth surrounded, but the whole galaxy has been rinsed. A huge, high-velocity stream of gas is wrapped around the Milky Way, about 200,000 light-years away, most of the way. We know where it comes from, more or less. It is very closely linked to the large …
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How do you study something invisible? This is a challenge facing astronomers studying the subject of darkness. Although dark matter contains 85 percent of all things in the universe, it does not interact with light. It can only be seen by the effect of gravity on light and other things. …
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The galaxies are already very large, with billions upon billions of stars orbiting supermassive black holes. But that’s not where their influence ends. The vast, spherical charge of gas surrounds the galaxy, reaching farther than the main population of stars, somewhat like the atmosphere of a galaxy. Hubble observations from …
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The loving spiral arms of the “flocculent” galaxy NGC 2775, 67 million light-years away in the … [+] constellation of cancer. ESA / Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team Recognition: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla) Are we bored by the Hubble spaceships? Ask any space fan what their favorite …
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NASA is joining the ever-growing list of organizations and companies that are re-examining their naming system, removing names that are “unfathomable” and “harmful” from their vocabulary. Aunt Jemima, The Chicks, Mrs. A, Mrs. Butterworth’s, de Washington Football Team – and now, celestial objects – have all undergone a rebrand. “Eskimo …
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