Scientists have long wondered exactly how spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, get their shape. New observations of a distant galaxy are shedding light on that question. Researchers from the ...
The spiral galaxy NGC 2008 sits center stage, its ghostly spiral arms spreading out towards us, in this image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini The Hubble ...
Spanning 120,000 light years, our galaxy’s disc outshines the rest of the Milky Way. The disc harbours the Sun and most of the galaxy’s other stars, as well as the beautiful spiral arms. But exactly ...
Using the ALMA observatory in Chile, a group of astronomers captured an image of distinct spiral arms in the large disk of gas and dust surrounding Elias 2-27, a young star that lies in the ...
Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1. The white “+” marks the location of the protostar. The contour lines indicate signal strength. The colors represent the ...
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