The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different ...

Rather than solid arms, spiral galaxies may show density waves—regions where matter slows down and bunches up, like cars in ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

On one side, it has a wide, star-studded spiral arm that appears as if it is reaching out, according to Nasa. This feature is not mirrored on the other side, which instead showcases only a few ...

"The disk, when viewed from a distance, would appear as a spiral structure with two twisted arms," the authors wrote. Those "arms" resemble the elongated structures of a spiral galaxy, like our ...

Despite this early epoch, the galaxy exhibits a surprisingly mature structure: a central old bulge, a large star-forming disk, and spiral arms—features typically seen in nearby galaxies.

Two spiral arms emerge from the gas-rich disk around SAO 206462, a young star in the constellation Lupus. This image, acquired by the Subaru Telescope and its HiCIAO instrument, is the first to ...