By analyzing the available observational data, astronomers from the Tribhuvan University in Nepal and elsewhere have ...

In just 25 images, a team led by Francine Marleau at the University of Innsbruck identified 2,674 dwarf galaxies. Her group used a semi-automated approach to scan the data and compiled a catalogue of ...

which lies 2′ west-southwest of the brighter elliptical galaxy. I assure you, it is visible This week’s second large-telescope target is the Sextans Dwarf, a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the ...

On one hand you have spheroid dwarf galaxies, spiral dwarf galaxies and elliptical dwarf galaxies, and on the other you have irregular dwarf galaxies. The latter are chaotic galaxies that lack a ...

Elliptical galaxies are shaped roughly like ... Also in the Local Group are a couple dozen dwarf galaxies. Several of these dwarf galaxies are satellite galaxies, orbiting around the large galaxies.