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

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

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

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

Astronomers have captured a dazzling image of the Antlia Cluster, showcasing hundreds of galaxies in extraordinary detail.

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have captured a stunning view of the Antlia Cluster, a group of galaxies glittering like cosmic jewels 130 million light-years away. The image, taken by the powerful Dark Energy Camera ...

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 ...

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 ...

SBb-type galaxies lie in between the two. SB0 is a barred lenticular galaxy. A new type, SBm, was subsequently created to describe somewhat irregular barred spirals, such as the Magellanic Clouds, ...