Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a gorgeous view of the 'Sunflower Galaxy' (Messier 63) from his backyard ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a striking cosmic vista featuring the grand design spiral galaxy M81 alongside the ...

Astronomers are using Hubble to study vivid gas clouds and newborn stars in the tilted spiral galaxy NGC 3511.

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

"Like any spiral galaxy, its disc is filled with billions ... a year apart showed SN 2017GAX beginning to fade into a smaller green dot. Of the six Hubble images used to create this composite ...

Ronald Brecher photographed the Sunflower Galaxy (M63) from Guelph, Ontario, using advanced gear and over 13 hours of exposure.

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 ...

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

Belly up to the bar This week’s large-telescope target is barred spiral galaxy M108, another Messier object in Ursa Major. Here’s a great target for a large telescope. Not only is M108 a ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, the spiral galaxy has only one visible arm.

The stunning image shows the classic spiral swirl of M81 — also known as Bode's Galaxy — suspended against ... with the remaining time split between red, green, blue and hydrogen-alpha filter ...