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Stories about: Antennae Galaxies

ALMA Begins Service for Radio Astronomers Officials at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) report that the massive Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope has finally opened its eyes, and that it is now ready to support scientific investigations. The instrument is located on the Chajnantor plateau in northern Chile, and cu... 3 October 2011 06:34 GMT Famous Antennae Galaxies Get New Image Experts at the American space agency have just released a new view of the Antennae galaxies, which are among the most widely-known objects in the Universe. The two cosmic structures were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in the past, and that photo became an instant classic with the scientific community and the ge... 6 August 2010 02:41 GMT The Antennae Galaxies Draw Closer to Us The Antennae Galaxy is one of the closest and most studied galaxy mergers in the universe. It consists of two gravitationally interacting galaxies dubbed NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 that collided with one another a couple of hundred million years into the past. New observations made by researchers from the European Souther... 9 May 2008 11:03 GMT