A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1032, a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on.
NGC 1032. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.
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On December 10, 2001 Australian amateur astronomer Robert Evans discovered a supernova in the outer edge of NGC 7424, a spiral galaxy located in the southern...
Our Milky Way Galaxy, which is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter, may be getting even bigger, according to a study by the Instituto de Astrofísica...
A team of European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers looking to better understand the formation history of our Milky Way Galaxy has started creating...
A blue supergiant star nicknamed Icarus is so far away that its light has taken 9 billion years to reach our planet. It appears to us as it did when the...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 5714.
This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714. Image credit:...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1015, also known as LEDA 9988, UGC 2124 and SDSS J023811.55-011907.5.
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A remarkable new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Arp 256, a stunning system of two barred spiral galaxies in an early stage of merging.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3972, which is found in the constellation of Ursa Major.
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Astronomers have long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy was 2-3 times the mass and size of the Milky Way, and that our own Galaxy would ultimately be engulfed...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of NGC 3344, a face-on spiral galaxy. Hubble’s capacity to observe objects in...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have produced this vivid image of a distant pair of interacting...
This view, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a somewhat overlooked barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 1559.
This image from the NASA/ESA...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, which is found in the constellation of Pegasus.
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A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398 in striking detail.
This image shows spectacular ribbons of gas and...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy UGC 6093.
This image, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows the megamaser...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of a spiral galaxy called LEDA 53183.
This image, taken with the Wide-Field Camera...
Using data from the Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) on the Gemini North telescope in Hawai’i, astronomers have identified what they...
Conditions favorable for mergers of massive black holes exist in the outer gas disks of massive spiral galaxies, according to a study led by Rochester...
