with spiral arms starting at diametrically opposite points), already at 1 billion years after the Big Bang," they write in their paper. In addition, it's quite large for a galaxy in the early ...

"Zhúlóng shows that mature galaxies emerged much earlier than expected in the first billion years after the Big Bang," writes a team led by astronomer Mengyuan Xiao of the University of Geneva in ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

Spiral galaxies have a thin ... galaxies are called dwarfs while the largest are called giants. Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of three large galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies.

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy —at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 ... while orange spots in the image show distant background galaxies. Hubble has been operational for over ...