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

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located ...

Why it's so special: What if a galaxy had only one spiral arm? Our solar system resides on the outskirts of one of the Milky ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the ...

This not-too-distant celestial body (it's only 42 million light-years away!) is a spiral galaxy much like Earth's own Milky Way. But because of where we are and how it's situated, Hubble's photo ...

NGC 3596 appears almost perfectly face-on when viewed from Earth, showcasing the galaxy's neatly wound spiral arms. These bright arms hold concentrations of stars, gas, and dust that mark the area ...

A supermassive blackhole—one measuring millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun—was found at the center of a nearby spiral galaxy known as Messier 83 (M83) by the James Webb Space ...

On the one hand, the galaxy's disc looks like it belongs to a spiral galaxy like our very own Milky Way—and yet the spheroidal bulge and halo are evocative of an elliptical galaxy. As a whole ...

the star-filled arms of the spiral galaxies glow in blue, while the cores of both galaxies are seen in bright orange. Related ...

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