This week’s first large-telescope object is barred spiral galaxy NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. You’ll find this object 2.2° northeast of magnitude 4.6 Phi Ursae Majoris. It glows at magnitude 10.9 ...

In 1790, William Herschel discovered NGC 3079, a nearly edge-on barred spiral galaxy in Ursa Major about 50 million light-years away. Hubble images reveal its spiral disk is peppered with many HII ...

Two "superbubbles" were found in the galaxy NGC 3079. Pictured: These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal a white bubble of activity within the core of the galaxy NGC 3079, as hot gas is ...

A composite image of the superbubbles made from Chandra (purple and pink) and Hubble data (orange and blue). NASA/STScI. Soap bubbles are pretty, but superbubbles are prettier. This stunning image ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy that's giddily blowing bubbles like a toddler with a glass of chocolate milk. Unlike milk bubbles, however, these two huge galactic balloons are filled ...

Scientists have released the results of a study investigating a galaxy called NGC 3079, which is home to a pair of huge bubbles as well as a supermassive black hole. One of these bubbles has been ...

NGC 4151 and NGC 3079, there’s little doubt that active galaxies — defined as those with supermassive black hole cores belching immense amounts of energy, called active galactic nuclei ...

The superbubbles in NGC 3079 give off light in the form of X-ray, optical and radio emission, making them detectable by NASA telescopes. These bubbles provide evidence that they and structures ...

The galaxy NGC 3079, located 67 million light-years from Earth, is blowing bubbles. Seen here in X-rays and optical light, the spherical structures are formed when powerful shock waves shove gases ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory found evidence of the “superbubbles” in galaxy NGC 3079, and believe they are formed from enormous amounts of energy created after the infall of matter into ...