The rings are regions of higher density, where the galactic material has been pushed together by the rippling shocks. The ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Around 50 million years ago, a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the center of an enormous galaxy more than twice the size of ...

Experts have found water in the universe for the first time in history, and it could be one of the greatest achievements ever ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

MeerKAT has already played a key role in uncovering some of the hidden treasures of the southern sky since it became operational in 2018, and in addit ...

In a study that was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers used Hubble to find eight observable ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The researchers speculate that the first two rings in the Bullseye galaxy formed rapidly and spread outward. The creation of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

After the collision, there is a very narrow window when a galaxy like this one can have so many rings | OBOZ.UA ...