Recent Posts Tagged With 'galaxy'

• HTC Hero Google Sky Map

  Posted on Saturday September 5th, 2009 at 17:34 in galaxy

  And apart from the occasional supernova once every few centuries, star data is pretty stable. This meant that we could fit all of Sky Map's core data into a tiny 60K, all of which ships freely with the application and might never need a single updat...

• Nearby Barred Spiral Galaxy Shows Off Its Warped Disc

  Posted on Monday November 12th, 2007 at 04:45 in galaxy

  Known until now as a simple number in a catalogue, NGC 134, the 'Island in the Universe' is replete with remarkable attributes, and the VLT has clapped its eyes on them. Just like our own Galaxy, NGC 134 is a barred spiral with its spiral arms loose...

• Hubble Sees Beautiful Carnage

  Posted on Saturday November 3rd, 2007 at 06:53 in galaxy

  Two big, beautiful spiral galaxies… tearing each other apart. The large, face-on spiral is NGC 3808, while its dueling partner is the smaller, edge-on NGC 3808A. And between the two is a long today tail of stars, gas and dust, transferring from one...

• Hubble Spies Shells Of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar

  Posted on Wednesday October 31st, 2007 at 06:02 in Universe, galaxy

  New images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope -- part of a research project led by UC Riverside's Gabriela Canalizo -- have revealed the wild side of an elliptical galaxy, nearly two billion light-years away, that previously had been considered...