Colliding Galaxy Pair Takes Flight

This striking NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which shows what looks like the profile of a celestial bird, belies the fact that close encounters between galaxies are a messy business.

This striking NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which shows what looks like the profile of a celestial bird, belies the fact that close encounters between galaxies are a messy business.

Over the last twenty years, astronomers have found that almost all galaxies have a huge black hole at their centre. Some of these black holes are growing by drawing in matter from their surroundings, creating in the process the most energetic objects in the Universe: active galactic nuclei (AGN).

WASHINGTON — A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova.

A small asteroid flew safely past the earth ar 8:42 pm on Friday night. It shot over at about 65,000 miles above the earth' surface.