Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...

A team of astronomers from Yonsei University and collaborating institutions has uncovered an isolated early-type dwarf galaxy that may have been ejected from its galactic group billions of years ago.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

At first glance, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image seems to show an array of different cosmic objects, but the speckling of stars shown here actually forms a single body a nearby dwarf galaxy ...

Hubble has turned its sharp gaze on a compact, intensely blue dwarf galaxy about 13 million light years away, revealing a crowded nursery where massive stars are being forged at a furious pace. The ...

In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers led by the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have observed a previously-undetected black hole in a dwarf galaxy ...

Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It's part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs. In ...

NGC 1705 and other dwarf irregular galaxies like it can provide valuable insights into the overall evolution of galaxies Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar Fitting that this juicy piece of eye ...

As machine learning approaches get more and more sophisticated, they are increasingly used in astronomy for difficult tasks like spotting dim and distant galaxy clusters. It can be tremendously ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An astronomer studying small irregular galaxies has discovered a remarkable feature in one of them that may provide key clues to understanding how galaxies form and the ...

The local 'metal-poor' dwarf galaxy was hidden in the glare of a foreground star earning the nickname Peekaboo. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...