In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This ...

Behind this galaxy’s calm facade lies the fingerprint of a long-dead giant star. A violent supernova once rocked its ...

NGC 685, a smaller cousin of our Milky Way, dazzles with youthful energy as newborn stars light up its spiral arms.

A newly discovered barred spiral galaxy dating back 11.1 billion years is rewriting what scientists know about galactic ...

The Knife Edge Galaxy is located some 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco, according to NASA. NGC ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC ...

Hubble captures stunning barred spiral galaxy NGC 3507 in Leo’s night s NGC 3507 forms a hidden galactic duo with its spiral companion, NGC 350 NGC 3501 lies just beyond Hubble’s view, yet travels clo ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early universe with ALMA and the James Webb Space Telescope.

ALMA measures evolution of monster barred spiral galaxy Date: May 22, 2025 Source: National Institutes of Natural Sciences Summary: Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and gas ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light-years. Check out ...