New Image of Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660
A new image of ring galaxy NGC 660, which is located about 40 million light-years from Earth toward the constellation Pisces, was released by the…
A new image of ring galaxy NGC 660, which is located about 40 million light-years from Earth toward the constellation Pisces, was released by the…
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy NGC 3344, which is located 25 million light-years away. NGC 3344 is a glorious…
First observed by the British astronomer William Herschel on January 14, 1778, and now seen in this new image from Hubble, spiral galaxy NGC 4183…
Using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and gravitational lensing, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. With the combined…
While helping to classifying galaxies seen in hundreds of thousands of telescope images as spiral or elliptical, Galaxy Zoo project volunteers came across galaxies that…
Using the NRO 45m Telescope at Nobeyama Radio Observatory, scientists discovered a “pigtail” molecular cloud, located in the Galactic center, approximately 30,000 light-years away from…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Arp 116, which is composed of a giant elliptical galaxy known as Messier 60, and a…
Using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, astronomers captured a new image of globular star cluster…
Documented in three new studies, data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission was used to discover millions of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme…
Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Magellan telescopes in Chile, the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, and other facilities, a team of astronomers discovered the…
Using data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey, astronomers found 14 galaxy systems that are similar to the Milky Way, with two of those…
Located about nine million light-years away from our solar system and classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, DDO 190 with its reddish outskirt stars and…
Using the infrared spectrometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope to examine the dust absorption of active galactic nuclei, astronomers at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory found that…
Captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope, this new image from the European Southern Observatory is the most detailed ever taken of spiral galaxy NGC 1187,…
After 8 and a half days of observations of the spiral galaxy M83, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected X-rays from the remains of…
Discovered in March 1786 and located in the constellation of Virgo, NGC 4700 is classified as a barred spiral galaxy and is about 50 million…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of globular star cluster Messier 107, which is located in the constellation of Ophiuchus. The NASA/ESA…
While using the Hubble Space Telescope to take pictures and study very distant galaxies in the early universe, astronomers discovered a spiral galaxy that is…