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Spaceship travel may not be budget friendly, but trip to the galaxy is definitely free. Just go online to explore the universeIn just our observable universe we estimate there are over 2 trillion galaxies!28 Dec, 2021, 03.40 PM IST- Here's how to explore far far away galaxies in the universeYou can spend hours exploring the incredible images and finding interesting-looking galaxies.27 Dec, 2021, 12.59 PM IST
- Monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away spottedTokyo, Aug 30 (IANS) Astronomers have obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away, u...30 Aug, 2018, 01.22 PM IST
- Ghostly galaxy without dark matter stuns astronomersLondon, March 29 (IANS) In a shocking discovery, astronomers have found a galaxy that is missing most -- if not all -- of its dark matter.29 Mar, 2018, 01.12 PM IST
- Astronomers spot pair of rare hyper-luminous galaxiesNew York, Nov 14 (IANS) In a first, astronomers have spotted close encounter between two hyper-luminous starburst galaxies -- astoundingly ...14 Nov, 2017, 11.42 AM IST
- Asteroids photobomb Hubble's deep space picturesWashington, Nov 3 (IANS) Asteroids in our solar system that are about 160 million miles away from Earth got in the way while NASA's Hubble ...03 Nov, 2017, 03.42 PM IST
- Quasars may starve galaxies of energy needed to form starsNew York, July 31 (IANS) Quasars, powerful energy sources believed to dwell at the heart of galaxies, may be responsible for why some galax...31 Jul, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
- Astronomers find massive disk-shaped dead galaxyWashington, June 22 (IANS) Astronomers have detected a first-of-its kind compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stoppe...22 Jun, 2017, 11.17 AM IST
- Gravitational waves boot monster black hole from galactic coreWashington, March 24 (IANS) NASA's Hubble space telescope has detected a supermassive black hole that has been kicked out of the centre of ...24 Mar, 2017, 11.10 AM IST
- Researchers get first glimpse of rare galaxy with two ringsNew York, Jan 5 (IANS) Researchers have spotted for the first time an extremely rare type of galaxy whose elliptical-like core is surrounde...05 Jan, 2017, 11.59 AM IST
- New, rare galaxy spotted over 359 million light-years awayThe galaxy named PGC 1000714 appears to belong to a class of rarely observed, Hoag-type galaxies.04 Jan, 2017, 01.33 PM IST
- Astronomers spot mysterious 'Frankenstein' galaxyThey had been looking for stars forming in run-of-the-mill elliptical galaxies, which do not spin and are more 3D and football-shaped than ...12 Jul, 2016, 01.30 PM IST
- 'Giant black hole 660 million times bigger than Sun'The mass of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a nearby giant elliptical galaxy is 660 million times greater than that of the Sun, ...06 May, 2016, 12.38 PM IST
- Dark matter satellites trigger massive birth of starsThese star forming episodes may last for several billions of years, depending on the mass, orbit and concentration of the dark satellite, r...10 Mar, 2016, 04.52 PM IST
- Hubble views a galactic mega-merger: NASAThe Hubble Space Telescope has viewed a galactic mega-merger - a product of a collision between two good-sized galaxies, which is slowly ev...18 Jan, 2016, 06.50 PM IST
- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovers galaxy star birth mechanismAstronomers, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have uncovered a process for how the universe's largest elliptical galaxies continue maki...07 Aug, 2015, 01.23 PM IST
- Astronomers find 11 runaway galaxiesAstronomer Igor Chilingarian said the galaxies were "facing a lonely future, exiled from the galaxy clusters they used to live in,".24 Apr, 2015, 01.45 PM IST
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