"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

NSF NOIRLab has begun the New Year by unveiling a remarkable deep-space image of the Antlia Cluster, including hundreds of ...

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

Dwarf irregular galaxy, UGC 8091: The dwarf galaxy is approximately 7 million light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

The galaxy NGC 5084 has been known for centuries. It was first cataloged by William Herschel in 1785, and has been well ...

X-ray observations suggest these two galaxies are merging, indicated by a "rope" of globular clusters connecting them. This ...

Using the NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra astronomers have discovered a strange black hole that has been knocked on ...

The S0 lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 is unremarkable when observed in optical light (left, grayscale and black contours) very much an example of a "red and dead" galaxy but becomes alive and violent ...

SBa types feature tightly bound arms, while SBc types are at the other extreme and have loosely bound arms. SBb-type galaxies lie in between the two. SB0 is a barred lenticular galaxy. A new type, SBm ...

Day 3 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Hubble Space Telescope brings us this nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753. Lenticular galaxies have an elliptical shape and ...

Above is a striking image, also published in July 2021, of two enormous galaxies; a lenticular galaxy on the left called 2MASX J03193743+4137580 and a side-on spiral galaxy on the right named UGC ...