A Giant Galaxy Orbiting Our Own Just Appeared Out of Nowhere

http://gizmodo.com/a-giant-galaxy-orbiting-our-own-just-appeared-out-of-no-1771257641

Last night I had a sudden odd thought: perhaps Shub-Niggurath, Our Lady of Biodiversity, is in fact the enormous, supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Or She may even be the Milky Way itself, with all the endlessly complex biodiversity our galaxy must hold. Perhaps that is what H. P. Lovecraft and other contributors to the ( Read more... )

Hubble Space Telescope & Space Photography

http://www.space.com/11559-photos-lopsided-galaxy-meathook-ngc2442.html

No, this is not an Onion piece about "The Hook." It's a real galaxy caught square in the sights of the Hubble Space Telescope. ( Read more... )

APOD: 2011 April 18 - Visual Effects: Wonders of the Universe"What visual effects are depicted in this video? The effects were created by BDH for the BBC television show Wonders of the Universe, but are unlabeled on the above version posted to Vimeo. Even so, some stills in the video are easily identified, such as the Hubble image of the Carina ( Read more... )

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/110223_blackhole

http://www.universetoday.com/83009/a-pure-disk-galaxy-is-a-perfect-picture/

http://www.universetoday.com/82358/hubble-eyes-hannys-voorwerp/

http://www.universetoday.com/82196/galactic-mergers-fail-to-feed-black-holes/

http://www.universetoday.com/82207/star-birth-and-death-in-the-andromeda-galaxy/