The IceCube collaboration detected high-energy neutrinos, considered a milestone in astrophysics, back in 2013. These kinds ...

Suffering from the Monday blues? Distract yourself by spending a few minutes figuring out the Wordle answer for today, 2nd September 2024. For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a ...

Messier 77 (or M77 for short, also known as NGC 1068) is a barred spiral galaxy located some 47 million light years away. It hosts an active galactic nucleus (AGN), which globally ionizes gas in ...

Discovered in 1784, NGC 891 (also known as Caldwell 23 or the Silver Sliver Galaxy) is an edge-on, unbarred spiral galaxy located some 30 million light years away. It has a size of about 100,000 ...

Galaxies - the Milky Way's siblings - offer a surprising variety of forms and colours. Displaying symmetrical spiral arms, glowing red nebulae or diffuse halos, even the image of a galaxy can reveal ...

454, Issue. 1, p. 576. Romeo, Alessandro B. and Fathi, Kambiz 2016. What powers the starburst activity of NGC 1068? Star-driven gravitational instabilities caught in the act. Monthly Notices of the ...

Very recently, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory reported another excess of high-energy neutrinos in the direction of one of the brightest active galaxies, known as NGC 1068, in the northern sky. “We ...