Hubble's new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll. Messier 104 was discovered back in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain—and has since been the ...

Rare, elliptical craters spotted on two of Saturn's moons reveal new clues about the satellites' age and formation, a new study shows. Using data from NASA's Cassini mission, researchers from the ...

Celebrate a Harvest Moon lunar eclipse and an occultation of the planet Saturn, ... This is not an internal reflection — it’s a 10th-magnitude elliptical galaxy some 8,000 light-years away ...

As they continued to map the observable universe, astronomers looking at 400 elliptical galaxies noticed that they were moving towards something we cannot see, as it is in the "Zone of Avoidance ...

It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.

Galaxy Arp 184, however, we are seeing from an angle, so it looks different. More than that, though, Arp 184 is skewed so that it isn’t perfectly spiral shaped.

When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it.. That glowing curve isn't the ...

In elliptical galaxies, stars are thought to wander far more randomly, undermining the cohesive shape. Elliptical galaxies like the young NGC 3610 don't make for anything like as beautiful images ...