Universe

The hugely sprawling Tarantula Nebula, a vast star-forming complex in a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's currently making hundreds of thousands of stars. Credit: ESO
A huge distant galaxy went from making billions of stars to suddenly stopping. Why?
Phil Plait
Feb 6, 2020
Trending on SYFY WIRE in Universe
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: Hubble Space Telescope
Tag: galaxies
Tag: gravitational lensing
Tag: active galaxies

Related tags

Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: galaxies
The Sunburst Arc: A quirk of gravity reveals how the infant Universe lit up
Phil Plait
Nov 18, 2019
Comment count Comment count: Trending 1
Detail of one Starburst Arc shows several bright knots; each is an image of the same region of the lensed galaxy replicated through the lensing process. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Rivera-Thorsen et al.
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: galaxies
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: Hubble Space Telescope
The Legacy of Hubble: One image, a quarter MILLION galaxies
Phil Plait
May 3, 2019
Comment count Comment count: Trending 3
Detail of the Hubble Deep Field shown at nearly full resolution.
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: Hubble Space Telescope
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: active galaxies
A quasar at the edge of the observable Universe shines with the light of 10 *trillion* Suns
Phil Plait
Jan 18, 2019
Comment count Comment count: Trending 14
The quasar J043947.08+163415.7 (red) is extremely far away, and its light has been amplified by an intervening galaxy (blue) much closer to Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and X. Fan (University of Arizona)
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: active galaxies
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: galaxies
Pale, dusty dots
Phil Plait
Jan 11, 2019
Comment count Comment count: Trending 6
A map of the sky using the far-infrared observatory Herschel; every dot you see in this image is a distant galaxy. Credit: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE; M. W. L. Smith et al 2017
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: galaxies
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: Gamma Rays
Measuring all the light in the Universe. All of it. Ever.
Phil Plait
Nov 30, 2018
Comment count Comment count: Trending 21
Omega Centauri
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: Gamma Rays
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: galaxies
A gigantic galactic city — still under construction — seen clear across the Universe
Phil Plait
Oct 18, 2018
Comment count Comment count: Trending 6
A visualization of the Hyperion proto-supercluster based on actual observations. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada & Olga Cucciati et al.
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: galaxies
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: galaxies
Hubble goes deep and finds thousands of galaxies assembling when the Universe was young
Phil Plait
Aug 20, 2018
Comment count Comment count: Trending 7
A deep Hubble image in ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light shows thousands of galaxies in the early Universe. This is the northern field of the HDUV survey.
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: galaxies
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: Universe
A glimpse of oxygen at the edge of space reveals stars born just after the Universe itself
Phil Plait
May 17, 2018
Comment count Comment count: Trending 19
The galaxy cluster MACSJ1149.5+223 lies in the foreground and magnifies the image of the much more distant JD1, a galaxy 13.3 billion light years away. Inset is the observation of oxygen from the galaxy.
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: Universe
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: cosmology
How fast is the Universe expanding? The answer depends on how you measure it, and that's a problem
Phil Plait
Feb 26, 2018
Comment count Comment count: Trending 28
This is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and almost everything you see in it is a distant galaxy, billions of light years away. Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z.
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: cosmology
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: Universe
The immensity of the Universe, and our place in it
Phil Plait
Jan 1, 2018
Comment count Comment count: Trending 19
The immense galaxy cluster Abell 2163 is 2.5 billion light years away and contains hundreds of massive galaxies. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: Universe
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: supermassive black holes
The black hole on the edge of forever
Phil Plait
Dec 6, 2017
Comment count Comment count: Trending 3
Hercules A is a relatively nearby active galaxy, with a black hole in its heart eating matter and blasting out huge amounts of radiation and matter.
Tag: Science
Tag: Bad Astronomy
Tag: supermassive black holes
Tag: wormholes
Tag: space
Scientists believe there could be a wormhole at the center of our galaxy
Trent Moore
May 29, 2014
Comment count Comment count: Trending 4
Einstein-Rosen Rainbow-Bridge-Antahkarana-worm-hole.jpg
Tag: wormholes
Tag: space
Tag: Stargate
Tag: Universe
Here’s the latest news from Blastr and the world of SCI FI, Fantasy and Horror - January 27, 2017
Patrick Lee
Dec 14, 2012
RobertCarlyle_24Redemption_gal.jpg
Tag: Stargate
Tag: Universe