Measuring over 500,000 light-years across—five times the size of the Milky Way—NGC6872 is the second largest spiral galaxy discovered to date, according to NASA. On Monday, in honor of the ...

Our results have recently been published in Nature. Galaxies in the present-day universe fall into two broad categories. There are spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, which are rich in gas and ...

NASA's cutting-edge space telescopes continue to unravel the mysteries of the universe, capturing breathtaking images of ...

Hubble's Telescope has imaged irregular galaxies, characterized by their lack of shape and minimal dust content. This is the deepest view of the universe ever captured at optical and near-infrared ...

It is one of the largest members of the Virgo Cluster but, unlike most of the late-type spiral galaxies in this cluster, it shows an unusual abundance of neutral hydrogen (H I). The supermassive ...

The formation of ancient gigantic galaxies that bulge like footballs compared to our relatively flat spiral galaxy ... ALMA is the largest astronomical project in existence comprised of 66 ...

From the moment it unfurled its distinctive hexagonal mirrors in early 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has treated the world to a steady stream of remarkable images. This year was no exception: ...