Posted on July 14, 2007

M49, M95, Pegasus Dwarf Galaxies Explained

Billions of galaxies exist in the known Universe, and not any two are completely the same. Galaxies are awesome compared to what we can comprehend, various thousands of light years across (a light year is approx 300,000kms a second!), others are...

Posted on April 3, 2007

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Elliptical Galaxies

Elliptical galaxies are ellipsoidal agglomerations of stars, which usually do not contain much interstellar matter, and look smoothly like small wads when viewed through a telescope.