The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

ESA/Euclid Consortium/NASA et al / SWNS A panoramic mosaic, which has been enlarged 600 times, highlights the structures of a spiral galaxy ... the stars of the Milky Way as well.

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

M17, also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan Nebula, is one of the largest star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. M67 ...

the larger spiral galaxy at right. Both have increased star formation rates. Combined, they are estimated to form the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun annually. Our Milky ...

Spiral galaxies are disk-shaped assemblages ... of active galactic nuclei found at the core of some galaxies. The Milky Way galaxy appears to harbor at least one such object within its nucleus.

“Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way... challenges our understanding ... are planned to confirm the presence of spiral arms and other advanced structures.

“Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way, that is strongly rotation ... hinted at even more developed features, such as spiral arms, and they plan to carry out more ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful ...