Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud? If we’re being perfectly specific, it’s the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753, which sits about 60 million light-years from Earth in ...

The Milky Way has no fewer than 157, but more globular clusters are thought to exist within the innermost regions of the ...

(Xiao et al., arXiv, 2024) In the Universe around us today, galaxies come in a number of different shapes and sizes. Lenticular galaxies are sort of blobby and formless, while spiral galaxies have ...

Spiral galaxy IC 5332: The galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor and has an almost face ...

The S0 lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 is unremarkable when observed in optical light (left, grayscale and black contours) very much an example of a "red and dead" galaxy but becomes alive and violent ...

Now, they are revisiting a fan-favorite galaxy with new image processing techniques. The new image reveals finer detail in the galaxy's disk, as well as more background stars and galaxies.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured detailed images of the spiral galaxy NGC 4941, located 67 million light-years away in Virgo. The observations focus on star ...