A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

Whatever the origin story, TOI-6894b is leading the ranks of other known gas giants orbiting small and faint stars that ...

The Milky Way will not exist in its current form some day, a scenario that was expected to unfold in about 5 billion years. However, a new study suggests that this could happen a lot earlier, in about ...

Like magnificent large spiral galaxies, small galaxies also form stars. In the image, the dwarf irregular galaxy "Ugc 2858" shows bright blue young star clusters and pink areas where stars are ...

These are called “dwarf elliptical galaxies” and are satellites of larger galaxies. The Andromeda galaxy, for example, has many dwarf ellipticals orbiting it. Ellipticals don’t have much gas ...

Dwarf Irregular Galaxy UGC 8091: The dwarf galaxy is approximately 7 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Irregular galaxy, NGC 2814: It is an irregular galaxy that lies ...

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, astronomers are now revealing these distant, dim worlds—some no bigger ...

A sample of the 2,600 dwarf galaxies seen in Euclid data. (Image credit: Francine Marleau et.al. 2025) In fact, Marleau and colleagues were able to go beyond merely identifying dwarf galaxy ...

NGC 4214: The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4214 resides about 10 million light-years away. Fornax 2: This image shows the globular cluster Fornax 2 in the dwarf galaxy Fornax.

Dwarf galaxies only contain a few billion stars , whereas standard galaxies have hundreds of billions. This is irregular dwarf galaxy NGC 6822 - which is not part of the newly found group ...

Nasa's Hubble telescope has captured an image of a dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879, also known as the VV124.The galaxy is located just beyond the Local Group, about four million light-years from ...