NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some stunning images of a ‘Grand Design’ spiral galaxy, revealing intricate details of its swirling arms and structure. The Southern Pinwheel ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

The Sombrero galaxy shines in a new mid-infrared image, revealing a smooth inner disk and intricate clumps in its outer ring. Herbig-Haro 46/47, a cloud in space, gives birth to new stars ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the sun—which is pretty big—plus young jets ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what ...

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured the neighboring spiral galaxy Andromeda, also known as M31, in stunning ultraviolet light. Thanks For Reading!

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy —at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

This cosmic proximity allows us to understand our own spiral galaxy, on which we occupy a spot on one of the spiral arms. "Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies in the universe at large ...