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 ...

"Our finding offers key constraints for models of massive galaxy formation and the origin of spiral structures in the early universe." In the Universe around us today, galaxies come in a number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...