About 35 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Eridanus the River, lies the spiral galaxy NGC 1637. Back in 1999, the serene appearance of this galaxy was shattered by the appearance of ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now ...

Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1. The white “+” marks the location of the protostar. The contour lines indicate signal strength. The colors represent the ...

People from different parts of the world witnessed a mysterious unidentified flying object moving in a spiral pattern in the sky. Videos and photos of the sighting were shared on social media ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...

In 1999 the Lick Observatory in California reported the discovery of a new supernova in the spiral galaxy NGC 1637. It was spotted using a telescope that had been specially built to search for these ...

Supernovae are amongst the most violent events in nature. They mark the dazzling deaths of stars and can outshine the combined light of the billions of stars in their host galaxies. In 1999 the Lick ...

About 35 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Eridanus (The River), lies the spiral galaxy NGC 1637. Back in 1999 the serene appearance of this galaxy was shattered by the ...