The dual disk structure of our home galaxy may not be as unique as once thought, according to the results of a new study that probed the cross section of a spiral galaxy orbiting edge-on from the ...
The figures illustrate the revealed sequential disk formation in this study: thick disk only galaxies dominate the early epochs (bottom panel), while galaxies exhibiting both thin and thick disks ...
Using Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope, astronomers have detected a massive bipolar outflow of cosmic material erupting from ...
While observing a distant galaxy located 320 million light years away, a team of astronomers from Australia stumbled upon something oddly familiar. The galaxy, dubbed UGC 10738, had a thick disc ...
An international team of astronomers has identified for the first time a thick stellar disc in the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. An international team of ...
Astronomers found a giant hourglass shape around a galaxy called ESO 130 G012. This structure is made of radio waves and ...
An international team of astronomers has used HiCIAO (High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Optics) [Note 1] to observe a disk around the young star SAO 206462. They succeeded in ...