Also known as the enigmatic "hidden galaxy," IC 342 is a big barred spiral with low surface brightness in the constellation ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

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

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

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

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 ...

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

The spiral galaxy is home to Earth and hundreds of billions of stars spanning more than 100,000 light-years, NASA said. The peak period to view the Milky Way will be from Tuesday, May 20 ...

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 ...

The image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date. It has remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a central old bulge, and a large star-forming disk, resembling the structure ...