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The galactic masterpiece combines over 100 exposures to reveal previously unseen features of stars in formation.
A faint dwarf galaxy neighbouring the Milky Way has been photographed in the highest resolution yet, helping provide valuable information about the early universe. Michelle Starr Science editor ...
The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy may not be visually impressive, but it is remarkable for its history — it is much older than its host galaxy, the Milky Way, and lacks heavy elements.
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy is one of the Milky Way’s dozens of known satellite galaxies roughly 300,000 light-years away. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, pictured in this new image from the Wide Field Imager camera, installed on the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, is a close neighbour of our ...
T he Hubble Space Telescope has shown that dark matter is concentrated within the core of a nearby dwarf galaxy, a finding that rushes to the rescue of the Standard Model of cosmology.This model ...
The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral structure. But while it is impossible to get a full view of the Milky ...
Reuters. A thousand-color image of the Sculptor galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, released June 18, 2025.
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy is pictured in this new image from the Wide Field Imager camera. The camera was installed on the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, […] ...
The dwarf galaxy Donatiello II is very faint and hard to pick out from the background behind it, but an amateur astronomer was able to point it out. ... it orbits the Sculptor Galaxy.