Astronomers from South Africa and India have analyzed archival data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Giant Metrewave ...
To astronomers, Segue 1 barely qualifies as a galaxy at first glance. It’s dim, fragile, and so sparsely populated with stars — only a few thousand compared to the Milky Way’s hundreds of billions — ...
A fleet of NASA space telescopes has traced a brief flash of gamma rays to a likely collision between two neutron stars, placing the violent event inside a tiny, gas-shrouded galaxy that had escaped ...