Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... the birth of stars and channel gas between the inner and outer regions of a galaxy. The spiral may also have formed after two smaller galaxies merged ...

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope ... including the red color that is characteristic of gas heated by massive young stars, in order to ...