Caption An image of a dwarf elliptical galaxy satellite of the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, a galaxy similar to the Milky Way's companion, the great Andromeda galaxy M31. This image shows the same ...

Deep in the heart of the massive Perseus cluster, giant galaxies stir, stars are torn from their homes and hot gas radiates ...

Isophotal fitting revealed isophotal twisting inside a neighboring dwarf elliptical galaxy VCC319, suggesting that this galaxy was also affected by the merger. Based on spectral data fitting of ...

Elliptical galaxies are shaped roughly like ... Also in the Local Group are a couple dozen dwarf galaxies. Several of these dwarf galaxies are satellite galaxies, orbiting around the large galaxies.

This galaxy is classified as both a dwarf galaxy, because of its small size, and an elliptical galaxy, because of its form. Elliptical galaxies are smooth and featureless, appearing blob-like and ...

Dwarf galaxy—The smallest and most common kind of galaxy. Elliptical galaxy—A galaxy that appears round or elliptical and lacks a disk with spiral arms. Such galaxies have little dust and gas ...

The human species is ever-changing and so is our view of the universe.

Huge galaxy clusters are providing answers to contemporary cosmic questions a century after astronomers demonstrated that ...

Elliptical galaxies have a much more pedestrian ... gas around NGC 4694 forms a long bridge to a nearby, faint dwarf galaxy named VCC 2062. The two galaxies have undergone a violent collision ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that lies 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor ...

The huge and detailed mosaic is just a preview of the data to come from this recently launched space telescope.