Upgraded ALMA images expose hidden rings and spirals around baby stars, indicating planets begin taking shape mere cosmic ...

Explore the warped spiral galaxy NGC 3718 and its neighbor NGC 3729 — a dynamic duo of deep-sky oddities in the constellation ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Astronomers have observed unusually shaped galaxies in a transitory phase of galactic evolution, often colliding or ...

Early Spiral Galaxy Captured for the First Time Using Gravitational Lenses . For the first time ever, scientists have ...

This survey will compile observations on about 40 billion stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. Each one will be checked out hundreds of times, giving astronomers access to about 60 petabytes ...

A section of the new view of the Sculptor galaxy, featuring thousands of colors ESO Some ten million light-years away from Earth sits a brilliant spiral galaxy officially called NGC 253 but known ...

The Sculptor Galaxy, a spiral galaxy approximately 11 million light-years away yet one of the brightest (and dustiest) galaxies in the sky, has long been a subject of astronomical fascination.

Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors. The dazzling panoramic shot released Wednesday of the Sculptor galaxy is so detailed ...