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 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way.

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 ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the sun—which is pretty big—plus young jets ...

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 ...

They identified a giant grand-design spiral galaxy, named Zhúlóng, which could well be the most distant ever observed. This galaxy, located at a photometric redshift of about 5.2, has a mass ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

Spiral galaxies like this one are ... each wavelength offering unique insights into the galaxy's gas clouds, star formation, and more. Fast forward to 2023, when Hubble actually revisited UGC ...

She added: ‘In December 2020, we identified a new bright supernova, now named “SN2020acct”, in a nearby spiral galaxy called NGC ... thing is a major step forward in knowledge and greater ...