Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

This cosmic proximity allows us to understand our own spiral galaxy, on which we occupy a spot on one of the spiral arms. "Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies in the universe at large ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis," according to the Hubble team.

on the 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory to conduct a deep imaging survey of 11 dwarf galaxies, including the spiral galaxy NGC 300, which is similar in ...

Star-forming galaxies, including ours, are rich in elements — and secrets. Stars come to life fastest in the early histories of such galaxies, but this process doesn’t last at such a high rate ...

The universe is an expansive place, so it makes sense that galaxies out there might look different. While we have plenty of spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, these are only the most common ...