Galaxies – Page 19 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Newly Identified Galactic Supercluster Is Home to the Milky Way

Posted on September 3, 2014March 23, 2017

Astronomers using the GBT find Milky Way is part of ginormous supercluster of galaxies called Laniakea.

Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe

Posted on August 26, 2014March 28, 2017

ALMA and VLA team up with other observatories for best view ever of merging galaxies in the distant Universe.

Colliding galaxy clusters MACS J0717+3745

Image Release: A Violent, Complex Scene of Colliding Galaxy Clusters

Posted on June 3, 2014March 28, 2017

Astronomers using the Very Large Array and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have produced a spectacular image revealing new details of violent collisions involving at least four clusters of galaxies.

Failed Dwarf Galaxy Survives Galactic Collision Thanks to Full Dark-Matter Jacket

Posted on May 23, 2014March 24, 2017

A high-velocity hydrogen cloud hurtling toward the Milky Way appears to be encased in a shell of dark matter, according to a new analysis of data from the GBT.

The Milky Way Explorer

Posted on April 2, 2014March 28, 2017

The latest NRAO Explorer interactive is a tour of our Milky Way Galaxy, with real astronomers as hosts, and provides exciting news about a supermassive black hole that is about the feed on an unlucky cloud of gas.

NRAO Media Tip Sheet: March 2014

Posted on March 26, 2014March 31, 2017

Astronomers make distance measurement, GBT gets new spectrometer, and protoplanetary disks bulge are topics in March tip sheet.

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