The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300, one of the morphological twins of the Milky Way studied in this project. The bar is one of its most prominent features. Spiral structures ...

Every day, we hear planes flying to the mountain, drawing water ... features like the spiral arms and dense central bar of stars common to galaxies like the Milky Way. The heart of IC 3430 is ...

An incredible image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope shows two galaxies, IC 2163 and ...

The Milky Way only produces around two or three new sun-like stars each year. To the left, the Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 in ultraviolet and visible ...

By teaming up, NASA’s Webb and Hubb;e space telescopes have delivered the highest resolution image of IC 2163 and NGC 2207 to ...

2024 — Researchers have discovered compelling evidence suggesting that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as ... Supercomputer Simulations Reveal the Nature ...

These galaxies have only grazed one another to date, with the smaller spiral on the left ... the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun. Our Milky Way galaxy only forms the ...

The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations Perseus and Taurus. An ancient supernova could be the culprit.