In some well-known cases, such as the Cartwheel Galaxy, a head-on collision also produced multiple concentric features—but nowhere near the amount seen in Bullseye. Astronomers say catching all ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison ...

Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with ...