The Milky Way arches across the night sky above the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon in the Tibet autonomous region. [Photo provided to China Daily] BEIJING -- Chinese astronomers have recently transformed ...

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Recent research shows how fractal properties can help distinguish between grand-design and flocculent spiral galaxies. The post Featured Image: Fractals and Flocculence appeared first on AAS Nova.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The inner region is smooth and devoid of gas, characteristics typical of elliptical galaxies. There, star formation has essentially ceased, leaving behind an ageing population of stars. Astronomers ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that’s hard to categorise. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67-million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab ...

A feathery ring of dust and stars known as galaxy NGC2775 continues to irk astronomers and has yet to be defined after NASA released updated imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy about ...

ABSTRACT: Recently, the application of plant-based coagulants in wastewater/effluent treatment has drawn much attention due to their many advantages over chemical agents in terms of biodegradability, ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to ...

The study employed a technique the researchers call 'pattern matching', using Cepheid variable stars to effectively anchor the distances of the gas on the outer edges of the galaxy's spiral arms for ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a detailed image of Messier 63. It is also known as the Sunflower Galaxy. The galaxy is 27 million light-years away in Canes Venatici. Astronomers study its ...