This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

The Spiral Galaxy Priority Mail stamp features NGC 628 ... a reflection nebula where gas and dust cascade in shades of pink, purple, and white, illuminated by the cluster’s stars.

This image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date, shows its remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a ...

A massive spiral galaxy known as J2345-0449 emits powerful radio jets more than 5 million light-years long. | Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al/Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (CC BY 4.0) Nearly a ...

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The Milky Way (bottom) compared to the larger galaxy 2MASX J23453268-0449256. Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al / Hubble Space Telescope The cosmic quandary of the expansive spiral galaxy 2MASX ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new ...

Nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy contains something it shouldn't: a supermassive black hole with jets so powerful, the spiral should no longer be stable. J2345-0449—as the ...

He initially thought the galaxy was an unhelpful distraction to his other, unrelated studies of this particular patch of the early universe. The giant spiral didn’t look like it belonged there ...