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

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 ...

Like magnificent large spiral galaxies, small galaxies also form stars. In the image, the dwarf irregular galaxy "Ugc 2858" shows bright blue young star clusters and pink areas where stars are ...

While galaxies with highly organised structures like the barred spiral shape of the Milky Way are common now, that was not the case 11.1 billion years ago. "Compared to other monster galaxies in ...

Astronomers Spot Galaxy Shaped Like Milky Way But Is Far More Massive The distant galaxy, called J0107a, was observed as it appeared 11.1 billion years ago, when the universe was about a fifth of ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like the Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...

Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical, irregular and peculiar.

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy.

Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history, galaxies are thought to be small, chaotic, and ...

Galaxies from this time are typically small, irregular, and still assembling. But the Big Wheel upends that script — it's a fully formed, spiral disk galaxy, echoing the structure of the Milky ...