The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The tenuous disc of the galaxy is threaded through with ...

See views of The Horsehead Nebula, the Perseus Cluster of galaxies, spiral galaxy IC 342, irregular galaxy NGC 6822 and ...

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Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...

Data from the Hubble Space Telescope produced this new image of the galaxy UGC 8091. ESA / Hubble, NASA, ESA, Yumi Choi (NSF's NOIRLab), Karoline Gilbert (STScI), Julianne Dalcanton (Center for ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a unique galaxy, neither spiral nor elliptical, located 67 million light-years away, challenging existing galactic classifications.

Our Milky Way galaxy has an elegant spiral shape with long arms filled with stars, but exactly how it took this form has long puzzled scientists. New observations of another galaxy are shedding light ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The galaxy itself is a stunning swirl of gas and dust sculpted into thick lanes that spiral ...