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Slide: 1 / of 6 . Caption: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. Known as the Veil Nebula, the debris is one of the best-known supernova remnants, deriving...

Melanie Galloway - UMN "Galaxy Zoo Hubble: First results of the redshift evolution of disk fraction in the red sequence" The transition of galaxies from the blue cloud to the red sequence is commonly linked to a morphological transformation from disk...

Today on the advent calendar we’re asking for your help on Galaxy Zoo. One of the Galaxy Zoo researchers is a graduate student called Mel, who has to write-up her thesis by the start of the summer. Mel’s thesis will include a study on how the population...

This thesis explores the properties of galaxies that reside in regions of high density and the influence of the environment in their evolution.  In particular, it aims to shed more light on the understanding of how galaxies stop forming stars, becoming...

The Daily Galaxy: Large disk galaxies like our own Milky Way were not always the well-ordered, pinwheel-like, spiral structures we see in the universe today. On the contrary, international experts who specialize in galaxy formation and evolution believe...