An image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope of stars and galaxies surrounding spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Martel Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

M51 is a grand-design spiral galaxy about 25 million light-years away from Earth and boasts very well-developed arms. ... Our universe mastered the art of making galaxies while it was still young.] ...

The galaxy’s existence suggests that even 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—which is to say, early in the universe’s existence—well-articulated spiral galaxies existed.

Well, for starters, thou art less ancient and far less spectacular. The new collection of 19 images reveal face-on spiral galaxies, meaning they are oriented toward Webb’s perceptive gaze.

Morphology of galaxies contain important information about the process of galaxy formation and evolution. With its state-of-the-art resolution, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has now captured ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy.

Spiral galaxy NGC 1961 positively glows in this Hubble Space Telescope ... It's a dream-like image showing how a telescope can deliver a work of art every bit as moving as a fine painting. In ...

You are face-to-face with spiral galaxy NGC 3596, courtesy of an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. British astronomer William Herschel was the first person to see and document the ...

This image of a spiral galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, will be on a new United States Postal Service stamp scheduled to be released to the public Jan. 21.

Time-lapse video taken from Croatia at around 4 p.m. EST, or 9 p.m. local time, shows the glowing light spinning across the sky in what many social media commentators likened to a spiral galaxy.

Our third target is the barred spiral galaxy NGC 134. You’ll find it 0.5° east-southeast of 5th-magnitude Eta (η) Sculptoris. It glows at magnitude 10.4 and measures 8.5′ by 1.9′.