A vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). A Milky Way star shines near its edge.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light ...

Despite its neighboring galaxy's absence, NGC 1317 appears alongside two cosmic companions. A crisscrossed star from our galaxy and a distant red smudge lie beyond. Telescope teamwork across the ...

Early Spiral Galaxy Captured for the First Time Using Gravitational Lenses . For the first time ever, scientists have ...

There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours. Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda.

This galaxy, shaped like our Milky Way, formed just a billion years after the Big Bang. Most distant spiral galaxy ever found shatters theories of cosmic formation Skip to main content ...

Hubble spies spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Dec 23, 2024. Hubble observes ram pressure stripping in galaxy JW100. Mar 27, 2023. Recommended for you.

Hubble captures amazing spiral galaxy full of new stars. Hubble’s vivid capture of the bar-spiral galaxy NGC 685, 64 million light years away, vividly capturing the spectacular sight of stars being ...

Explore NGC 6946, the Fireworks Galaxy — an active starburst galaxy on the Cepheus-Cygnus border known for its high rate of supernovae. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

The Knife Edge Galaxy is located some 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco, according to NASA.NGC 5907's spiral form is oriented edge-on to our planet, granting it a sharp ...

It's been textbook knowledge for over a century that our Milky Way galaxy is doomed to collide with another large spiral galaxy, ... Top left: Galaxies M81 and M82. Top right: NGC 6786, a pair ...