It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

Local media company OGS (short for Our Grandfather Story) has won big at The Pinwheels by sweeping three categories and taking home a total of S$15,000 in production grants. The categories won by OGS ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.

Three Decades Later, First Brown Dwarf Ever Found Offers a Surprise By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf ...

In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese 229 – a red dwarf star located about 19 light-years from Earth.

The finalists of this year's edition of Mediacorp's The Pinwheels were announced on Tuesday (Oct 15), with many familiar faces making the cut. The third iteration of the awards will have 10 categories ...

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...

"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...