NGC 5283 is a Seyfert galaxy. The lenticular galaxy NGC 5283 is the subject of this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes center stage in this image from the ...
Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the telescope, this image of our nearest major galactic neighbor, M31, is the largest Hubble mosaic to date.
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 ...
"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 ...