"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...

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A team of researchers at Nagoya University has discovered evidence that the Small Magellanic Cloud is potentially being torn ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

Galaxies in the early Universe tend to be clumpy and irregular. Supernova explosions in this galaxy would have spread heavy elements forged inside stars, like oxygen, which has been now detected ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the Milky Way’s closest neighbors. It’s a small, irregular galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and is an easy naked-eye object from the Southern ...

spiral dwarf galaxies and elliptical dwarf galaxies, and on the other you have irregular dwarf galaxies. The latter are chaotic galaxies that lack a distinct shape, and are low in elements heavier ...

"Of the galaxies identified, 58% are elliptical dwarf galaxies, 42% are irregular galaxies and a few are rich in globular clusters (1%), galactic nuclei (4%) and a noticeable fraction (6.9% ...