NASA has released new imagery of 19 spiral galaxies. Space experts say the images of the stars and dust are on the smallest scales ever observed. The closest of the 19 galaxies is millions of light-years from Earth.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveils a 2.8-ton, $800 million digital camera, set to revolutionize astronomy with 3,200-megapixel capability and a decade-long mission.
Looking like a baseball lobbed into the depths of the universe, ESO 420-G013 is a face-on spiral galaxy and a Seyfert galaxy. Dark lanes of dust are visible against the background glow of the galaxy’s many stars. About 10 percent of all the galaxies in the universe are thought to be Seyfert galaxies. They are […]