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The Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sensitive gaze to a flocculent spiral galaxy. Astronomers are interested in ...

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, winding spiral arms and ongoing star formation. Ellipticals ...

A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it looks like nothing special. No bright spiral arms. No obvious central bulge. Not even the soft smudge you ...

The constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) is home to Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. Messier 101 is one of the biggest and brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky. Like the Milky Way, ...

A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. IC 486 lies right on the edge of ...

In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible—low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by dark ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a barred spiral galaxy. The observation was part of a campaign to better understand ...

NASA has completed assembly and testing on the 300MP Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, meaning a launch could come as soon as ...