The Zwicky Transient Facility has reached an incredible milestone: It has classified over 10,000 cosmic explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars and the feeding frenzies of vampire stellar ...

Though Fritz Zwicky is not well known to the public today, astronomers around the world, decades after his death in 1974, still gleefully gossip about his infamous professional battles and outrageous ...

This distant ring of galaxies is the 388th entry in volume 8 of the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies compiled by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky. As such, it’s referred to as VIII ZW ...

Halton Arp's 1966 *Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies* provided an early systematic examination of unusual galaxies and groups, raising fundamental questions that continue to challenge astronomers. Arp 103, ...

This pretty blue galaxy might not look like much, but it may in fact be the youngest galaxy ever found (Abell 2744 comes in a close 2nd place). Known as I Zwicky 18, this distant galaxy — which, from ...

In the late 1950s, there was a nontrivial global effort, a race in fact, to be the first nation to send an object to Earth’s orbit. Sputnik 1, Earth’s first artificial satellite, was launched 65 years ...

According to models and simulations, all galaxies should be embedded in dark matter halos, whose densities peak at the galactic centers. On long enough timescales, of perhaps a billion years, a single ...

Science journalist Johnson (Peppermint Twist, coauthor) presents a well-rounded biography of the brilliant, contrarian scientist Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974). Zwicky, who as a young man left his homeland ...

Difficult and enigmatic: Fritz Zwicky feuded with many leading scientists of his day. He is shown here at the California Institute of Technology in 1931. Front row (from left): Robert Oppenheimer, ...