Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the edge of a spiral. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral ...

Messier 81, a grand design spiral galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) / Wikimedia Commons The Webb Space ...

Among the important findings is the discovery of very young galaxies that already looked like their more senior counterparts in the local universe, and a recent study has shown a spiral galaxy ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the ...

What it is: Sombrero Galaxy (M104), a spiral galaxy. Where it is ... In visible light the Sombrero Galaxy — which we see edge-on from the solar system — has a brilliantly bright white core ...

We're floating in space, and we come across the side view of a spectacular spiral galaxy. It's called UGC ... volcano' erupt in amazing colors (video, photo) In general, Hubble's longevity lets ...

A spiral galaxy with a disk that spans ... Last month, astronomers revealed the first high-quality, zoomed-in photo of a star outside our galaxy. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the star ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a breathtaking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Astronomers use detailed Hubble images to study star clusters and active star-forming regions.

Pinwheel Galaxy. Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and host six detected supernovae. This image was captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

UGC 10043 is one of the somewhat rare spiral galaxies that are seen edge-on. From this point of view, we see the galaxy’s disk as a sharp line through space, overlaid with a prominent dust lane.