The Hubble Space Telescope captures the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).

How a galaxy without dark matter is helping prove dark matter exists 03:23. Astronomers have detected what they believe to be one of the earliest instances of "galactic cannibalism" — when one ...

That’s the case for a dwarf galaxy called Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM), which is one-tenth the size of our home Milky Way galaxy and pretty close by space standards at 3 million light years away.

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way.But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated.

The image shows a panoply of stars within a lonely dwarf galaxy called Wolf - Lundmark - Melotte, which lies about 3 million light-years from our home galaxy, the Milky Way, ...

This other recent Hubble image also shows a dwarf galaxy, one called NGC 5238. This one is located 14.5 million light-years away, but has a different and more complex type of structure.

If UMa3/U1 is a dwarf galaxy, it could be key to answering some big questions about how the Milky Way formed. According to the standard model of cosmology, galaxy formation is a hierarchical ...

The dwarf galaxy, bearing the official name HIPASS J1131–31, is located around 22 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Hydra.

The dwarf galaxy, known as Leo P and about 5.3 million light-years from Earth, is offering new insights into galaxy evolution and the factors necessary to keep galaxies growing and churning out ...

That's because this little galaxy is in the process of merging with our Milky Way, and it also interacts with its buddy dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers have discovered a super diffuse dwarf galaxy, named Nube, which gives off barely any visible light and seemingly defies explanation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...