The Milky Way – Tearing Apart Friendships for Billions of Years
Do the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies have their own satellites?
Catching Galactic Recycling In The Act
This little galaxy is churning out the ingredients necessary for planets and life at a frantic pace. New observations reveal the sharpest view yet of this cycle of gas and stardust.
Baby Photos of a Galaxy Cluster
While ClJ1446 is smaller and less massive than most present-day clusters, it is probably very similar to what they looked like 10 billion years ago. Therefore, this work can help improve our understanding of how our nearby galaxy clusters likely evolved.
The end of the line
The theory of a ‘galaxy main sequence’ has really taken hold of the astronomy community in the last few years. But how justified is this idea? Today’s paper: a challenge to the prevailing theory.
The Bullet Cluster – A Smoking Gun for Dark Matter!
A classic paper on dark matter is brought to ‘light’ in this bite, discussing a discovery that provides one of the best evidences we have for non-baryonic matter in the universe.
“Did I tell you about the time I was hit by a galaxy?”
“…and other lesson’s I learned when I was a spiral galaxy” — Our ideas of what happens to galaxies when they crash into each other comes mostly from simulations. But what if those results aren’t as trustworthy as we think? By watching a galaxy merger in the highest detail we can, we see that collisions may not be as destructive as we thought, and you just might survive a head-long crash into another galaxy.