Our Milky Way is surrounded by other galaxies that teach us our place in the Universe. What if we weren't?

To the mounting fandemonium and discussion of Guardians of The Galaxy, I offer my GIF review, charting the highs and lows of this wild ride.

This galaxy, UGC 2885, also known as Rubin's galaxy, is the largest spiral galaxy ever discovered at approximately 800,000 light-years in diameter.

Astronomers have identified the universe's oldest spiral galaxy from a blurry image captured by the ALMA observatory.

Combined with the absence of bright spectral lines typical of star-forming galaxies, the Balmer break was the ‘smoking gun’ evidence for a quenched galaxy in the early Universe.

“I just love the sparkle galaxy with its Christmas lights shining as it was when the Universe was just 600 million years old,” Prof Catherine Heymans, Scotland’s Astronomer Royal, told BBC News.

PASADENA, Calif. — A lucky celestial alignment has given astronomers a rare look at a galaxy in the early universe that is seeding its surroundings with the elements needed to forge subsequent ...

Star clusters observed within a galaxy in the early Universe Date: June 24, 2024 Source: Stockholm University Summary: The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present ...

The farthest galaxy in the universe Chemical signatures give away the distance to the most distant galaxy Date: December 15, 2020 Source: University of Tokyo Summary: A team of astronomers used ...

The enormous galaxy, called XMM-2599, stood out as a rarity in the early days of the universe. "In general, early-formed galaxies should be smaller in mass, because the current model of structure ...