Sep 21, 2015 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of a flocculent spiral galaxy called NGC 3521. This Hubble image shows the spiral...

Sep 7, 2015 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the famous galaxy Messier 63, also known as the Sunflower Galaxy. This image shows...

Aug 31, 2015 by News Staff

This newly-released image from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a Milky Way-like galaxy Messier 96. Dust...

Aug 10, 2015 by News Staff

The Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this image of part of an...

Jul 6, 2015 by News Staff

The subject of this Hubble image is LEDA 89996, a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Dorado (Swordfish). This image shows the Milky Way-like spiral...

Jun 25, 2015 by News Staff

A giant elliptical galaxy called Messier 87 merged with a medium-sized spiral galaxy in the last billion years, according to a comprehensive study of 300...

Jun 18, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, a network of several dozen radio dishes located in the high-elevation desert...

May 4, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the best image so far of the spiral galaxy NGC...

Apr 28, 2015 by News Staff

Supernova SN 2012ap is a ‘missing link’ between stellar explosions that generate gamma-ray bursts and those that don’t, says a group of astronomers...

Mar 30, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy...

Mar 23, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a spectacular new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5023. NGC 5023 is seen edge-on in this...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

This new image from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases NGC 4424, a 12th magnitude barred spiral galaxy...

Feb 9, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a new image of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 7814. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope...

Jan 26, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4217. This image shows the edge-on spiral...

Dec 14, 2014 by News Staff

A spectacular cosmic collision between the spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 has been caught in a composite image generated by NASA’s Chandra X-ray...

Dec 8, 2014 by News Staff

NASA has released a dazzling image from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing a nearby spiral galaxy called NGC 4102. Color composite image of the starburst...

Dec 5, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has discovered a new example of a jet-emitting spiral galaxy, SDSS J164924.01+263502.5 (J1649+2635 for short). J1649+2635...

Nov 25, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a distant barred spiral galaxy called NGC 986. This image shows the barred spiral galaxy...

Aug 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers operating ESO’s Very Large Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187. This image shows the...

Jul 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the Universe’s oldest spiral galaxy yet seen, an object that...