NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Hubble gazes at galaxies all the time—the famous Hubble ... core of a former spiral galaxy but is now what we would call elliptical. This data will be an invaluable resource for scientists ...

Hubble’s data spans the entire disk of ... "It’s between a star-forming spiral and an elliptical galaxy." One possible cause for this is a past collision with the nearby Messier 32 galaxy.

"With Hubble, we can get huge details about what ... of galaxy that's between a star-forming spiral and a sort of elliptical galaxy dominated by aging red stars," Weisz added, "This detailed ...

The Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located 31 million light-years away. The elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large galaxy ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

Hubble’s mosaic of Andromeda ... marking it as a transitional galaxy between a star-forming spiral and an elliptical galaxy dominated by older stars. “Andromeda looks like a transitional ...

This dream-like Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy known as NGC 3156. It is a lenticular galaxy, meaning that ...