A galaxy remarkably similar in shape to our own Milky Way, yet significantly bigger and dating back to the universe's infancy ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that, surprisingly, is shaped much ...

The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

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

NGC 3596 is a typical spiral galaxy, other than its straight-on orientation ... in part because of the sheer diversity of other examples. "Some have clear spiral arms, while others have patchy ...

NGC 1300, a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy. (NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team/STScI/AURA) In 2023, Huang and his colleagues described a galaxy called J0107a based on data from JWST ...

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 ...

meandering spiral arms, it lies close to the much larger Pinwheel Galaxy, which is one of the best-known examples of a 'grand design' spiral galaxy with prominent and well-defined spiral arms.

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. The Milky Way, for example, is a spiral galaxy because of the way that stars, dust, and gas spiral out from the center of the galaxy. But spiral galaxies ...