The larger elliptical galaxy is pulling material from a smaller neighboring galaxy, distorting its spiral arms. — Samantha Mathewson Read more: Galaxies get tangled up in 'the queen's hair' in new Hubble Telescope image Juno captures Jupiter's beauty (Image credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / ...
As the exact orbit and history of the comet are still being studied, and comets can have highly elliptical orbits that bring them close to the sun and then send them back into the depths of the solar system, it could well be that it will never return. The future orbit of C/2022 E3 ...
Deals with images, obtained by Hubble Space Telescope's new Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which suggest the early formation of galaxies in the universe. National Aeronautic and Space Administration; Elliptical galaxies; Relative paucity of the stately stellar pinwheels in spiral clusters; ...
The Hubble telescope's superior resolving power, with which it can see extremely fine detail, allowed the researchers to study how the structure of the Milky Way changed over time. At the peak of star formation, when the universe was about 4 billion years old, the Milky Way-like galaxies w...
The intergalactic medium (IGM) is a sparse gas that extends between the galaxies of the universe. It takes on a cosmic filamentary structure, with thin wisps and walls separating vast void areas. The intergalactic medium connects galaxies together like a game of connect-the-dots. The ...
In a first-of-its-kind image, the scale of galaxies, including the Milky Way, Andromeda, the largest spiral (UGC 2885), the largest elliptical (IC 1101), and the largest radio galaxy, Alcyoneus, are all shown together and, accurately, to scale. (Credit: E. Siegel) ...
right that IGM is of lower density than galaxies, but the average density oof the universe isn't just galaxies + IGM, it's galaxies (etc) + IGM + areas of void. The inclusion of these areas of void reduce the average density of the universe to below the average density of IGM alone...