Messier 83 was discovered in 1752, but it wasn't realized that it's actually a galaxy outside the Milky Way until Edwin ...

"As fascinating as the galaxy appears at visible wavelengths, some of NGC 5643's most interesting features are invisible to ...

Using the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico, astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of the Swelling ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, ...

Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, is one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in the night sky. It's ...

An image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) shows a striking celestial sight: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, a gorgeous face-on galaxy that is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies ...

The Hubble Space Telescope may be living our dream of wandering through the cosmos. It's the year 2000. We're floating in ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043 ...

Galaxies in the present-day Universe fall into two broad categories. There are spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, which are ...

See how elliptical galaxies in the distant universe were born, as new research gives astronomers a closer look at galactic ...

Astrophysics breakthrough: new evidence unravels the mystery of how massive elliptical galaxies form, shedding light on their ...

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