NASA Image Reveals Close-Up of 'Sparkling Snow Globe' Galaxy
The festive-looking galaxy, named UGC 8091, is around 7 million light-years away, and is a strange type of "irregular" galaxy.
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The festive-looking galaxy, named UGC 8091, is around 7 million light-years away, and is a strange type of "irregular" galaxy.
The discovery of stars with their outer layers of hydrogen stripped by companions fills a glaring hole in our understanding of supernovas and binary systems with colliding neutron stars.
You’d never notice one star in the galaxy that wasn’t from around here. Astronomers have now found that a star right near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way likely originated in a smaller galaxy that ours devoured.
Potentially, the 1st "extragalactic" star found at the heart of our galaxy S0–6 appears to have taken a 10 billion-year-long journey to reach the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.
Researchers have discovered an extragalactic star, S0-6, near the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole. The star’s unique composition and