Tag: Galaxy
Computer simulations shed light on the Milky Way’s missing red giants
A sequence of snapshots from a simulation showing a red giant star tunneling through a high density gas clump. The star is moving downward...
Small blue galaxy could shed new light on Big Bang
An image of the galaxy AGC 198691 (nicknamed Leoncino, or "little lion") taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: Photo by NASA; A. Hirschauer &...
Spectacular concentration of galaxies known as the Fornax Cluster
The Fornax Galaxy Cluster is one of the closest of such groupings beyond our Local Group of galaxies. This new VLT Survey Telescope image...
The missing brown dwarfs
Possible manifestations of brown dwarfs (artist's impression). As brown dwarfs are nearly invisible in the optical light and only emit radiation in the IR...