Today's rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy, which sits 45 million light-years away in the ...

An image of Zhúlóng the earliest and most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. | Credit: NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao (University of Geneva), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute), Dawn JWST Archive ...

Given the extreme angle at which it is viewed, astronomers are unsure if the Sombrero is a spiral galaxy or an elliptical galaxy. While it is packed with stars and hosts a supermassive black hole ...

Structurally, the galaxy blurs lines: while it has the disc typical of spiral galaxies, it also features a halo and bulge seen in elliptical galaxies. This has puzzled scientists, leaving the ...

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On the one hand, the galaxy's disc looks like it belongs to a spiral galaxy like our very own Milky Way—and yet the spheroidal bulge and halo are evocative of an elliptical galaxy. As a whole ...

Astronomers may have just stumbled across a ghost galaxy hiding in plain sight — a small, starless, fast-moving cloud of gas that checks all the boxes for what’s known as a “dark galaxy.” ...

A secret population of hidden galaxies suffusing the universe in a soft glow of far-infrared light have been strongly suggested to exist, based on careful detective work into some of the most ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The prevailing consensus in astrophysics is that the universe has spent the past 13-or-so billion years expanding outward in all ...

JWST detects early galaxy Zhúlóng at redshift z=7.3 Galaxy formed just 800 million years post-Big Bang Zhúlóng shares a spiral structure with the Milky Way ...