The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

A2744-GDSp-z4 was first recognized as an unusual galaxy and its further inspection found that it shows a grand-design spiral pattern with two well-formed spiral arms. The galaxy also showcases a ...

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A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

would appear as a spiral structure with two twisted arms," the authors wrote. Those "arms" resemble the elongated structures of a spiral galaxy, like our very own Milky Way. At an epic timescale ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

The galaxy nicely fills the frame ... pink gas clouds studded throughout its spiral arms. These flashy clouds are H II (pronounced "H-two" or hydrogen-two) regions, and they get their distinctive ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral ... The galaxy, named NGC 4900, lies about 45 million light-years from Earth. This image combines data from two of Hubble's ...

Credit: NASA/ESA A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the ...