Galaxy

Neural networks give astronomers huge boost in identifying galaxies: 27 million done, 600 million to come

AI algorithms in large-scale astronomy are mandatory, study says

AI + ML14 Apr 2021 | 21

Worried about the Andromeda galaxy crashing into our Milky Way in four billion years? Too bad, it's quite possibly already happening

Well, halo, halo

Science28 Aug 2020 | 56

So many stars, so little time: Machine learning helps astroboffins spot the most oxygen-starved galaxy yet

Don't bother packing your bags for HSC J1631+4426 just yet, it's 430 million light years away

AI + ML02 Aug 2020 | 10

Black hole destroys corona

'Just totally unheard of and really mind-boggling' says MIT assistant prof

Science18 Jul 2020 | 130

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective

Science08 Jul 2020 | 28

Meet Morpheus, the AI that'll show you how deep the universe's rabbit hole goes: Code can detect, classify galaxies from 'scope scans

Way easier than getting humans to scour petabytes of images by hand, looking for faraway systems

AI + ML14 May 2020 | 4

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Black hole quasar tsunamis moving at 46 million miles per hour

When science reality is more interesting than science fiction

Science21 Mar 2020 | 74

Astroboffins discover Sun is surfing on 9,000-light-year gas wave that acts as Milky Way's stellar nursery

The Radcliffe is totally radical

Science09 Jan 2020 | 21

Is there alien life on Earth? Maybe, says Brit 'naut. Well, where did they come from? How about this far-away cluster. Or this 'Godzilla' galaxy...

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations... symbolizing the elements that create truth and beauty.

Science07 Jan 2020 | 51

Someone get Greenpeace on the line. Boffins clock carbon 'pollution' cloud 30,000 light-years wide choking galaxies

It's the first bit of evidence that confirms carbon born in ancient stars spreads throughout space

Science17 Dec 2019 | 25

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

Only four billion years to wait to watch the pair duking it out

Science04 Oct 2019 | 65

Astroboffins spy the most ancient protocluster of galaxies yet found post Big Bang

The giant group of 12 galaxies formed when the universe was just 800 million years old

Science30 Sep 2019 | 14

Black holes are like buses: You wait for one – and three turn up at once in galaxy merger

Pic Three becoming one

Science26 Sep 2019 | 45

Revealed: Milky Way's shocking cannibalistic dark past – it gobbled a whole dwarf eons ago

Uh-oh, the more sizeable opponent Andromeda is next

Science23 Jul 2019 | 61

Forget 2019's tech biz takeovers, here's the mega-merger everyone's talking about: Milky Way and LMC, coming soon

And by soon, we mean, two billion years

Science04 Jan 2019 | 25

Phew, galactic accident helps boffins explain dark matter riddle

Texan-led team find ancient oddity that's full of the stuff

Science13 Dec 2018 | 55

Astroboffins find most distant source of oxygen in the universe

13 billion light years away, so no chance to have a huff

Science17 May 2018 | 17

Astroboffins peep at the largest orgy of galaxies banging into each other

The gargantuan blob could be creating the largest megastructure in the universe

Science26 Apr 2018 | 16

Scientists measure magnetic field around most distant galaxy yet

Galactic magnetism emerges early on in the universe's life

Science28 Aug 2017 | 17

Astroboffins spot a new type of galaxy bursting with stars

Star formation rate is a hundred times faster than our Milky Way

Science25 May 2017 | 17

Cosmo study: Middle-aged galaxies are rarer than you'd think

Gorgeous MIlky Way not even close to turning red through stress of ageing

Science30 Jun 2016 | 6

Hubble spies rare cosmic tadpole galaxy

Astro boffins use find to study star formations

Science29 Jun 2016 | 14

They Came From Beyond Our Galaxy And Landed In The Ice!

Boffins' tale of Neutrino source beyond the Milky Way spotted by Ice Cube observatory

Science19 Apr 2016 | 8

Astronomers find first neutron star in Andromeda galaxy

Lighthouse in space spotted in years of records

Science01 Apr 2016 | 11

Ansible offers starring roles for all in reworked Galaxy

In an automation hub far, far away

Devops15 Dec 2015 |

Astroboffins EYEBALL 13 BEELLION-year-old galaxy far, far, farthest away from Earth

'EGS8p7 is unusually luminous, may be powered by hot stars'

Science05 Sep 2015 | 49

Euro X-ray 'scope snaps Milky Way's 'tumultuous heart'

It's all go at the lively centre of the galaxy, XMM-Newton reveals

Science21 Aug 2015 | 5

Put it away: Dwarf's 'supermassive' marvel is actually smallest thing boffins have ever seen

No one's impressed, love

Science11 Aug 2015 | 28

GIGANTIC galaxy-chomping black hole rips boffins a new one

Megamouth is mouthing off at astrophysical theories

Science10 Jul 2015 | 17

Ginormous HIDDEN BLACK HOLES flood the universe – boffins

Pics My god, it's full of holes! (So watch your step)

Science07 Jul 2015 | 22

MONSTER GALAXY spotted hiding behind IMMENSE BLACK HOLE

No restaurants seen as yet

Science09 Jun 2015 | 36

Astroboffins perplexed by QUADRUPLE QUASAR CLUSTER find

Time to rethink galactic theories

Science15 May 2015 | 35

PHYSICS APPLECART UPSET as dark energy disappears, Universe slams on brakes

Science perhaps wrong about rate of embiggenmentation

Science11 Apr 2015 | 74

That 'wiped' Android phone you bought is stuffed with NAKED SELFIES – possibly

Infosec bods sound alarm after copping eyefuls of nudie pics

Security09 Jul 2014 | 48

ENTIRE UNIVERSE created in supercomputer. Not THIS universe (probably)

Do not mix with fairy cake and Total Perspective Vortex

Science08 May 2014 | 69

Does my mass look big in this? Roly-poly galaxy El Gordo more porky than first feared

Pic Hubble gets an eyeful of fattest cluster on record

Science03 Apr 2014 | 17

Very fabric of space-time RIPPED apart in latest Hubble pic

Cluster upchuck: Highspeed galaxy hurls star-making fuel during violent passage

Science05 Mar 2014 | 45

New snaps show dazzling young galaxies furiously spawning stars - 13 BILLION years ago

Luminous beauties found in Hubble's deepest ever pic of galaxy cluster

Science08 Jan 2014 | 9

Astronomers spot 13-BEEELLION-year-old hot galactic threesome

Pics Peeping toms probe the secrets of big gas bubble

Science23 Nov 2013 | 17

HUBBLE turns TIME MACHINE: Sees GLINT in the Milk(yway)man's EYE

Pic Universe really does gets better with age

Science14 Nov 2013 | 28

BETHLEHEM-grade SUPERNOVA possible 'within 50 years'

Pontiff-verified; but the Three Kings will need IR goggles this time

Science01 Nov 2013 | 40

Baffled boffins 'closer' to finding origins of extragalactic COSMIC RAYS

Uberbeams zap forth from deepest darkest space, says Delaware physicist

Science02 Sep 2013 | 41

Hitchhikers' Guide was WRONG, Earth is not in a galactic backwater

Quite a fashionable neighbourhood, new star map suggests

Science04 Jun 2013 | 97

Brutally efficient galaxy SPITS OUT STARS at 'maximum rate'

Burns through its gas supply, making Milky Way look slooow

Science24 Apr 2013 | 19

Revealing new pics of galactic princess Andromeda

Really big lens lets astro-paps get nice new snaps

Science30 Jan 2013 | 29

Black holes bigger than first thought

Boffins ready to ditch linear galaxy size = black hole size assumption

Science18 Jan 2013 | 4

Largest ever spiral galaxy spotted - may give birth to dwarf baby

'Youngest, hottest stars' helped boffins realise how massive NGC6872 is

Science11 Jan 2013 | 17

Astronomers find biggest black hole, 17 BILLION times the size of Sun

Black hole theory goatse'd by new discovery

Science28 Nov 2012 | 48

'Long Time Ago' and 'Far, Far Away' records broken by new GALAXY

I remember when it was all Big Bang round here

Science16 Nov 2012 | 45

Mysterious galactic glow caused by Hitchhikers' Krikkit style stars

Lone darkness-wrapped suns fingered in infrared conundrum

Science25 Oct 2012 | 29

Astroboffins out FREAK 'BI' GALAXY

Elliptical? Spiral? We report, you decide

Science22 Oct 2012 | 9

Astroboffins map GIANT MASS of dark matter

3D image shows ginormous filament of Big Bang batter

Science17 Oct 2012 | 36

Undead galaxy cluster spews 700 zombie baby stars A YEAR

IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!

Science16 Aug 2012 | 15

Boffins: VAMPIRE stars are PREYING on their companions

What's a scientist doing watching True Blood?

Science29 Jul 2012 | 14

Revealed at last: Universe's intergalactic dark matter skeleton

Boffins' first glimpse of the structural framework of our universe

Science06 Jul 2012 | 39

Outrageously old galaxy spied birthing new stars at furious rate

Every star is sacred, it's like the pop biz, etc

Science14 Jun 2012 | 21