Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a structure like our Milky Way
Deep Space
Deep Space
News
Mars slowly crushing its moon into a planetary ring, study finds
Phobos’ shredded pieces are likely to be strewn around the Red Planet in a ring similar to those circling Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
News
Hubble witnesses aftermath of galactic smash-up
According to this bright scattering of stars, it seems that NASA’s space telescope has captured the result of a galaxy collision
Deep Space
How do we know that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy?
We’ve never been outside our galaxy, so how do we know what it looks like?
Deep Space
What lies at the heart of the giant Perseus cluster?
We delve into the centre of this gathering of galaxies