Filled with over 1 million dazzling sources of stars and galaxies, the European Space Agency on Wednesday released mindblowing images of what deep space and our own Milky Way galaxy are made of.

At first glance, it may seem like any other large spiral galaxy, such as our Milky Way, with its bright, glowing center and faint dust scattered throughout. But all is not well in IC 3225.

Up until recently, theorists have believed a galaxy as elegant as the Milky Way — having a rotating disk and spiral arms, for example — would require billions of years of evolution.

“Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way... challenges our understanding ... are planned to confirm the presence of spiral arms and other advanced structures.

A trio of Japanese astronomers has challenged the accuracy of the first-ever image showing the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy ... of the Milky Way—shows a dark ...

Located 65,230 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, this galaxy is currently being absorbed by the Milky Way, making it a significant satellite. Situated 158,200 light-years away ...

Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it ...

(credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin)) The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy only about 1,000 light-years thick at the spiral arms and more at the bulge). Recent simulations ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could ... such as spiral arms, and they plan to carry out more ...

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky surveys, astronomers now think all those places are part of an ...