"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told reporters on Monday (Jan. 13) at the 245th meeting of the American ...

Like any spiral galaxy, shining stars fill its disk ... The supernova is already fading and is visible as a small green dot just below the crook of the spiral arm on the right side.

The new image, which was released Jan. 16 by the European Space Agency (ESA), is made up of approximately 600 different fields of view and shows the spiral galaxy "almost edge-on," or tilted 77 ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

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 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy —at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called 'spiral nebula' was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy -- at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

It’s a barred spiral galaxy, which means it has a central bar ... In this main image, different bands of X-rays from Chandra (orange, green, purple) have been combined with radio data (gray).

Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral nebulas visible ... universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor. The image reveals NGC 3430 as a ...