Elizabeth Gamillo is a staff writer for Discover and Astronomy. She has written for Science magazine as their 2018 AAAS Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Intern and was a daily contributor for ...
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 ...
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Alaknanda: Ancient spiral galaxy challenges existing knowledge of cosmic evolution
Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now ...
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 ...
A new study has provided a deeper insight into how galactic spiral arms are formed and how gas can be funneled inward toward the galaxy’s center, which possibly hosts a black hole. Astronomers making ...
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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