Galaxies

How many galaxies exist in the universe? Study says two trillion!

This painstaking research enabled the team to establish how many galaxies we have missed - much like an intergalactic archaeological dig, researchers said.

Jan 17, 2017, 18:54 PM IST

Hubble spots beautiful spiral galaxy that presents an interesting puzzle – See pic!

The galaxy, which is known as RX J1140.1+0307 and is in the Virgo constellation, presents an interesting puzzle.

Jan 14, 2017, 11:56 AM IST

Hubble's spy diaries: Breathtaking megamaser galaxy becomes space telescope's latest subject!

IRAS 16399-0937, as the megamaser galaxy has been named, is located over 370 million light-years from Earth.

Dec 29, 2016, 22:23 PM IST

NASA shares stunning image of a cluster of stars celebrating a cosmic Christmas; calls it ‘Winter’ Wonderland!

NGC 6357 is actually a “cluster of clusters,” containing at least three clusters of young stars, including many hot, massive, luminous stars.

Dec 20, 2016, 09:11 AM IST

Universe may be starting to die, say astronomers

Astronomers studying more than 200,000 galaxies have found that energy levels are falling and not even half of what it was two billion years ago, signalling an ageing Earth.

Dec 05, 2016, 10:45 AM IST

Humans will not survive another 1,000 years on Earth: Hawking

Humanity will not survive another 1,000 years on Earth unless the human race finds another planet to live on, one of the world's best-known physicists Stephen Hawking has warned.

Nov 17, 2016, 21:44 PM IST

NASA says world's largest space telescope ready for launch

The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched on board an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in October 2018, NASA said.

Nov 03, 2016, 08:59 AM IST

NASA's Hubble finds ten times more galaxies than previously thought

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories reveals that our universe contains 10 times more galaxies than previously thought.

Oct 13, 2016, 23:14 PM IST

Discovery sheds new light on 'missing' mass of Milky Way

The new knowledge sheds light on how individual atoms have assembled into stars, planets and galaxies like our own, and what the future holds for these galaxies.

Jul 26, 2016, 15:21 PM IST

Why some galaxies stop creating stars

Scientists may finally have an explanation for why some galaxies stop creating stars after a team of astrophysicists painstakingly analysed around 70,000 galaxies to understand the forces influencing star formation activity in them.

Jul 09, 2016, 16:04 PM IST

Why some galaxies have become barren

Over the last few billion years, a mysterious kind of galactic warming has caused many galaxies to change from a lively place where new stars formed every now and then to a quiet place devoid of fresh young stars.

May 26, 2016, 15:55 PM IST

Entire universe explained in 4 minutes - Watch video!

Parody education channel Exurb1a humorously explains the entire universe in just 4 minutes.

May 24, 2016, 12:17 PM IST

See pic – Amazing snapshot of colliding galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope!

This multi-colored haze actually marks the site of two colliding galaxy clusters, forming a single object known as MACS J0416.1-2403.

Mar 28, 2016, 09:10 AM IST

Newly-found brightest galaxies are `outrageously luminous`

Big Bang and microwave background for this work. They estimate that the newly observed galaxies they identified are about 10 billion years old and were formed only about 4 billion years after the Big Bang.

Mar 23, 2016, 21:32 PM IST

Astrophysicists detect superfast winds near supermassive black hole

Astronomers have known about the existence of quasar winds since the late 1960s. At least one in four quasars have them.

Mar 21, 2016, 22:10 PM IST

Did astonomers spot biggest structure in universe?

The BOSS Great Wall (BGW), discovered by a team from the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics, is believed to at least 830 galaxies.

Mar 14, 2016, 21:42 PM IST

80 young galaxies from early universe discovered

The team made detailed analyses of imaging data of these galaxies taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Mar 11, 2016, 20:05 PM IST

Scientists record mysterious infrared light from space

In a first, researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have detected the faintest and mysterious infrared light ever from space.

Mar 11, 2016, 12:06 PM IST

Repeat radio bursts from mysterious cosmic source detected

The finding suggests that these bursts must have come from a very exotic object, such as a rotating neutron star having unprecedented power that enables the emission of extremely bright pulses, the researchers said.

Mar 03, 2016, 15:57 PM IST