Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 11:24
Astronomers have discovered a river of hydrogen flowing through space and into a nearby galaxy.
Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 14:53
Astronomers from the University of Portsmouth have discovered that bar-shaped features in spiral galaxies accelerate the galaxy ageing process.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 13:16
Hubble has shown new image of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, otherwise known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, which is thought to have a double nucleus lurking at its core.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 12:18
The full beauty of nearby barred spiral galaxy M83 has been unveiled in all of its glory in a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 12:36
Researchers have said that a 12-year-old study of massive stars has reaffirmed that Milky Way has four spiral arms.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 12:47
Hubble Space Telescope has been able to capture a star explosion, forming supernova SN 2013ek, in spiral galaxy NGC 6984.
Last Updated: Friday, August 16, 2013, 10:23
Astronomers have claimed that mature looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the universe was just about 2.5 billion years old.
Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 12:41
An international group of astronomers has spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas.
Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 12:05
A new study has revealed that spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed.
Last Updated: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 16:02
The NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303.
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 10:24
How spiral galaxies like our Milky Way get and maintain their characteristic arms has proved to be an enduring puzzle in astrophysics .
Last Updated: Friday, March 29, 2013, 10:35
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of spiral galaxy Messier 77 -- a galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, some 45 million light-years away from us.
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