By analyzing the available observational data, astronomers from the Tribhuvan University in Nepal and elsewhere have ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

Spiral galaxies have a thin, pancake-shaped disk, with a spherical bulge at the center. Within the disk, the brightest stars trace out the characteristic spiral pattern. Elliptical galaxies are ...

But it appears to us (observed in optical or infrared) in projection, either as an ellipse or a spiral. We can measure the ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

The Sombrero Galaxy, also called Messier 104, sits around 31 million light-years away. It’s located in the direction of the ...

NASA just unveiled a new image of the iconic Sombrero Galaxy, showcasing intricate details of its vivid structure that ...