An international team of astronomers has employed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to investigate molecular gas in a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1387. Results of the ...
Globular clusters (GCs) are collections of tightly gravitationally bound stars, containing hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of stars. Studies of GCs could help us advance our knowledge ...
Located just 40′ northwest of 4th-magnitude Chara (Beta [β] Canum Venaticorum), the Cocoon Galaxy (NGC 4490) forms an intriguing pair with neighboring NGC 4485. Both were discovered by William ...
Forty million years ago, a star in a nearby galaxy exploded, spewing material across space and generating a brilliant beacon of light. That light traveled across the cosmos, reaching Earth June 29, ...