This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

It's the year 2000. We're floating in space, and we come across the side view of a spectacular spiral galaxy. It's called UGC 10043 and is located 150 million light-years away. Spiral galaxies ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

The alignment is purely by chance, but it makes for a jaw-dropping view ... Hints of side lobes coming off the central bulge suggest that this could be a barred spiral galaxy, a type of galaxy ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary edge-on view of the spiral ... caused the galaxy’s warped appearance, with the disk bending upwards on one side and downwards ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...

An image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1086 obtained by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The galaxy has a distance of 47 million light-years and is one of the nearest ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A bright star located about 10,000 light-years from Earth overlaps with the bright core of a ...

Located over 12 million light-years from Earth, a spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 ... astronomers captured an up-close view of the galaxy's active core and the fast winds flowing out from the ...

Given the extreme angle at which it is viewed, astronomers are unsure if the Sombrero is a spiral galaxy or an elliptical galaxy. While it is packed with stars and hosts a supermassive black hole ...