The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

The twelfth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a face-on view of a spiral galaxy, with a ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sharp eye toward a ghostly swirl of stars and gas known as the "Lost Galaxy," given ...

US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera has captured imagery of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 and its neighbor ...

MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

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M51 is a grand-design spiral galaxy about 25 million light-years away from Earth and boasts very well-developed arms. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 29, 2023 4:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

A frequent sign of the maturity of a spiral galaxy is the formation of a ribbon of stars and gas that slices across the nucleus, like the slash across a “no smoking” sign. In a landmark study of more ...