The objects within galaxies have two basic types of motions: orbiting around the galaxy centre in a regular organized disc, or in orbits oriented at random without a clear direction of rotaiton. If we ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission—designed to map the geometry of the dark universe with unprecedented precision—continues to deliver its first scientific insights. The Euclid Consortium has ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 79, No. 12, [Part 2: Physical Sciences] (Jun. 15, 1982), pp. 3908-3912 (5 pages) Some realistic galaxy models have ...

Galaxies are like people: the better you get to know them, the more peculiar they often seem. Classifying and explaining the appearance of objects that occur in such an array of shapes, masses and ...

Dr. Kartaltepe is an astrophysicist in the School of Physics and Astronomy. She is an expert in the areas of galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy morphologies, galaxy mergers and interactions, and ...

Astronomers have just developed an accurate and widely-applicable method for characterizing density wave features in galaxies. These density waves appear as high-density regions in galaxies in the ...

The galaxy evolution group at RIT investigates numerous questions related to our cosmic origins, such as how galaxies formed and evolved over time, what drives star formation and subsequent quenching ...

Edwin Hubble, born November 20, 1889, made seminal observations in 1923 of the Andromeda Galaxy and a Cepheid variable, which significantly broadened the understanding of other galaxies and the ...

(Nanowerk News) Astronomers have designed and trained a computer program which can classify tens of thousands of galaxies in just a few seconds, a task that usually takes months to accomplish. In ...

Researchers have developed a powerful new computer program called Morpheus that can analyze astronomical image data pixel by pixel to identify and classify all of the galaxies and stars in large data ...