A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ... It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt of its starry ...

From this vantage point, intricate clumps and strands of dust stand out against the brilliant white galactic nucleus and bulge, creating an effect not unlike Saturn and its rings—but on an epic ...

a catalog of galaxies that are neither perfectly symmetrical spiral galaxies nor smooth, spherical elliptical galaxies. First ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...