"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

The blue dwarf galaxy (seen on LEDA 1313424’s left in the image) shot through the Bullseye like an arrow. The impact moved material both inward and outward and triggered new regions of stellar ...

I had to stop to investigate it." In reality, this striking pattern formed 50 million years ago, when a small blue dwarf galaxy (visible in the image to the center-left) ploughed through the ...

The resulting image shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy, with a concentration of its bright stars at the lower right represented in blue. At bottom center is a small blue bubble-like structure ...

Hubble and Keck also confirmed which galaxy dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left.

Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has captured LEDA 1313424, a galaxy with nine star-filled rings, the most ever detected, resulting from an impact with a smaller blue dwarf galaxy. This unique ...

Contained within a small galaxy located 5.3 million light-years away are big clues about how stars can form. In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at ...