The Cigar Galaxy (also known as M82) is famous for its extraordinary speed in making new stars, with stars being born 10 times faster than in the Milky Way. Now, data from the Stratospheric ...

Exploding stars in normal galaxies have been caught contributing to a wind of radiation that can shut down further star formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

(Nanowerk News) The Galactic magnetic field plays an important role in the evolution of our Galaxy, but its small-scale behaviour is still poorly known. It is also unknown whether it permeates the ...

A stunning new pair of images from the James Webb Space Telescope show a new view of a familiar galaxy. Messier 82 is a famous starburst galaxy, full of bright and active star formation, and ...

Computer simulation of an outflowing galactic wind launched with an initial velocity of 450 kilometers per second and a mass outflow rate of 200 solar masses per year, which blows gas out of the ...

When astronomers peer into the universe, what they see often exceeds the limits of human understanding. Such is the case with low-mass galaxies–galaxies a fraction of the size of our own Milky Way.

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched unfold so quickly. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and the ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has mapped a magnetic highway driving a powerful galactic wind into the nearby galaxy merger of Arp ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...