Star formation at a rate of more than 15 solar masses a year has been observed inside a massive outflow of gas from a nearby galaxy; this could also be happening inside other galactic outflows.

A team of astronomers from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe has identified a thick stellar disk in the nearby Andromeda Galaxy for the first time. The discovery and properties of ...

The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Discovery of two new components within a puzzling spiral galaxy confirm it must have a pair of arms winding in the opposite direction from most galaxies, according to resul… ...

An Inconvenient Galaxy: Arms Winding 'Backwards' Date: January 10, 2008 Source: University of Alabama Summary: Discovery of two new components within a puzzling spiral galaxy confirm it must have ...

Researchers have found that millions of orbital changes, like those shown here, smooth the overall light profile of galaxy disks. The blue star is scattered several times. The orange star is captured ...

Astronomers have believed since the 1960s that a galaxy dubbed UGC 1382 was a relatively boring, small elliptical galaxy. Now, using a series of multi-wavelength surveys, astronomers have ...

The dual disk structure of our home galaxy may not be as unique as once thought, according to the results of a new study that probed the cross section of a spiral galaxy orbiting the Milky Way ...

The ring is offset from the center of the galaxy and split in one place, where they think that dwarf galaxy M32 blasted through on a high-speed journey through Andromeda’s disk.

Now, in a paper recently submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters, two Harvard graduate students used the 250 million-year-old crater record to show how a disk of dark matter suffusing the ...

JWST observations help researchers in spotting a 'jellyfish galaxy' with a 'tentacle' full of released stellar material.