NGC 4496 in the constellation Virgo consists of two spiral galaxies, NGC 4496A (upper large galaxy) and NGC 4496B (lower galaxy). They are in the same line of sight from Earth but located at quite ...

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 ...

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 ...

16 by the European Space Agency (ESA), is made up of approximately 600 different fields of view and shows the spiral galaxy "almost edge-on," or tilted 77 degrees compared to how we normally see ...

so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design spiral. The galaxy's name is Zhúlóng, after the Torch Dragon of Chinese myth, and its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy. It has been named Zhúlóng, after a giant red solar dragon and god from Chinese mythology. It is an incredible ...

"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 ...