Similar to points of light… a little blurry. Galaxies are billions in the infinite sky, located outside the Milky Way. But if we look more closely, we realize that their shape changes from object to …
Category Archives: Extrasolar
A galaxy in the galaxy
Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy knowns as ESO 498-G5. An interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral arms are wound toward the core, so that the nucleus seems …
Centaurus A: a galaxy ruled by black holes
A new spectacular image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, taken from Chandra, provides one of the best views, to date, of the effects due to an active supermassive black hole. It is possible to …
A new extrasolar small planet
This is a new, small and near planet that now the U.S. researchers call UCF 1.01. It is an exoplanet detected near GJ 436b, an exoplanet class “Hot Neptune”.…
A supernova in the galaxy NGC 5806
A new image of the Hubble Space Telescope (NASA / ESA) shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5806, in the Virgo constellation. Is about 80 million light years from Earth. This picture shows the explosion of …
