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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

meandering spiral arms it lies close to the much larger Pinwheel Galaxy, one of the best known examples of ‘grand design’ spiral galaxies with prominent and well-defined spiral arms.