The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to ...

How camera shutter speed and a Method race wheel combined to capture a perfect visualization of aerodynamic flow.

“This galaxy was developing bars 2 billion years after the birth of the universe," Daniel Ivanov, a graduate researcher at ...

NASA's Hubble Finds 'Cloud-9' — the First Confirmed Detection of a Failed Galaxy ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...

We quantify the evolution of the spiral, S0 and elliptical fractions in galaxy clusters as a function of cluster velocity dispersion (sigma) and X-ray luminosity (L(X)) using a new database of 72 ...

For centuries, the Fibonacci sequence has been one of nature’s most recognizable patterns, found in everything from sunflowers to pinecones. But recent research has thrown a curveball into the idea ...