For example, observations of athree-way galactic collisionin 2022 using the famedHubble Space Telescopegave some intriguing insights. The largest of the group, as it got into a tight orbit with the other two, snagged some material with its relatively strongergravity. This created an intriguing str...
What a difference 11 billion years makes, as can be seen in these two comparative views of our Milky Way galaxy. The top view shows how our galaxy looks today; the bottom view, how it appeared in the remote past. This photo illustration is based on a Hubble Space Telescope survey of ev...
For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the exact source of a peculiar type of faint microwave light emanating from a number of regions across the Milky Way. Known as anomalous microwave emission (AME), this light comes from energy released by rapidly spinning nanoparticles—bits of matter so ...