Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors. The dazzling ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

ALMA measures evolution of monster barred spiral galaxy Date: May 22, 2025 Source: National Institutes of Natural Sciences Summary: Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred ...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with ...

It glows at magnitude 9.7 and measures 6.0′ by 5.9′. This is a face-on spiral galaxy; however, its arms wind tightly around the core, so it doesn’t look nearly as good as others of this type.

For example, EGS23205—a barred spiral galaxy seen by both Hubble and JWST—appeared faint and featureless in the telescope’s earlier images. But JWST revealed a clear stellar bar at its ...

Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is known as a spiral galaxy. Our planet itself is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms ...

Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is known as a spiral galaxy. Our planet itself is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...