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Do galaxies spin
Monday, May 19, 2025 by Richard Harris
On a clear night, under the sweep of the Milky Way, one might gaze at the faint blur of the Andromeda Galaxythrough a telescope. It appears as a misty spiral, majestic yet eerily still. This leads to a profound question: do galaxies truly spin and move, or are those swirling shapes merely ...
Young galaxy mystery from JWST
Thursday, January 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
In a groundbreaking paper by Rashi Jain and Yogesh Wadadekar from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Pune, India, a grand-design spiral galaxy was discovered using JWST - that shouldn't be there. This galaxy, with a photometric redshift of...
NGC 5668 galaxy examined by Hubble
Monday, September 16, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668. It is relatively near to us at 90 million light-years from Earth and quite accessible for astronomers to study with both space- and ground-based telescopes. At first glance, it doesn’...
Galaxy visualization project
Thursday, September 12, 2024 by Richard Harris
It was 1923 and Edwin Hubble (eh hum born not far from me), using the 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, was able to resolve individual stars in the Andromeda Nebula (M31), including Cepheid variables. By measuring the period of these Cepheids, Hubble calculated their distan...