Spiral Galaxy
Spiral Galaxy
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photograph is one of my favourite images of interacting galaxies, but it’s actually a bit of a cheat. The galaxies are not interacting at all. The galaxies are simply in a chance alignment from our vantage point, and that’s how Hubble was able to produce such ...
Gravity
In this PodcAstroholic we answer the question, if gravity tends to form spheres why are some galaxies shaped like discs?
Dark Matter
In this PodcAstroholic we answer the question “How can spiral galaxies keep their shape?”
AstroNews
A new paper accepted for publication this month has highlighted how spiral galaxies came to form in the early Universe. By using the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team lead by Roberto Maiolino has individuated the mechanism through which galaxies gather stell...
10 Features
As we’ve seen in the previous vlog, spiral Galaxies started forming from the primordial protogalaxies about 11 billion years ago. The formation of spiral galaxies is important because it happened at the peak of population II stars formation and allowed for planets to form.