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A pair of galaxies in a new image display some curious features, demonstrating that each member of the duo is close enough to feel the distorting gravitational influence of the other. The ...

Is it a plane? Is it a satellite? Is it a galaxy? Is it aliens? A strange blue spiral lit up the skies over Europe on Monday night (March 24), causing residents of the U.K. and other European ...

Many Pennsylvania residents looked up to the skies Tuesday and saw something rather strange — a spiral-shaped light. Viewers ...

Quasar J0742+2704 (center) became the subject of astronomers' interest after it was discovered to have a newborn jet blasting from the disk around its supermassive black hole in 2020, using the Karl G ...

A telescope recently captured an image of a grand spiral galaxy that was first discovered over 200 years ago. Last month, the European Southern Observatory released a composite picture taken by its ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to mesmerize with its latest views of the Universe. Scientists caught unprecedented sights of star-making material when they directed a JWST instrument ...

Hubble has just dropped more galactic eye candy! From its vantage point in low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an intricate portrait of the NGC 3430 galaxy, a classic spiral ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The 'Lost Galaxy' NGC 4535 as seen by the Hubble Space ...