It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.

Elliptical galaxy NGC 3561B (upper left) and spiral galaxy NGC 3561A ... Jupiter’s Great Red Spot jiggles like JELL-O Jupiter’s Great Red Spot jiggles like JELL-O. By Laura Baisas.

Seen from Earth, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 is just a two-dimensional blob, though one that appears perfectly symmetrical and thus a favored target of amateur astronomers.

The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile planet that is in the midst of becoming a hot ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, launching in October 2024, will beat JUICE to Jupiter by about a year, arriving in orbit in April 2030, thanks to the power of its SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. But ...

Hubble's new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll. Messier 104 was discovered back in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain—and has since been the ...

Yet it also radiates a diffuse glow, much like an elliptical galaxy and its core of older, redder stars. This galactic marvel is known to astronomers as NGC 1156. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. B. Tully, R ...

Unlike Hubble, which traces a close, circular path around Earth, Chandra charts an elliptical orbit around Earth, traveling as close as 6,000 miles and as far as 86,400 miles from the Earth on its ...

The ancient elliptical galaxy where astronomers discovered the radio waves is about 2 billion light-years from Earth and is about 11.3 billion years old, according to the paper.

What happens when you build the largest digital camera on Earth, capable of capturing 3.2 gigapixel images, and aim it at the ...

As new images of Jupiter and a galactic survey spring forth from NASA’s new observatory, ... It is full of galaxies — 30,000 of them, according to Dr. Finkelstein — in all shapes, ...

New dynamical computer models show that life here on Earth was likely given a push and a pull from our own planet Jupiter. Our farflung gas giant has enough gravitational oomph to largely dictate ...