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A feathery ring of dust and stars known as galaxy NGC2775 continues to irk astronomers and has yet to be defined after Nasa released updated imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy about ...

Human classification, from celestial bodies to living organisms, often starts with their morphology. Depending on how something looks, it gets a certain label. This is all well and good until you find ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

These three galaxy images from the AEGIS survey show a range of galaxy types: a disk-like spiral galaxy (top), a cloud-like elliptical galaxy (middle), and an irregular galaxy resulting from a ...

The Milky Way's closest neighbor shines in a spectacular new astrophotography portrait. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A close-up on two spiral galactic members of the Virgo Cluster (NGC 4301 on the left, and Messier 61 on the right) as imaged by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. First look images made by the new ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed views of the mysterious filaments surrounding the galaxy M87. The central black hole plays a role in the evolution of these structures.

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy—an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with much ...

A team of astronomers from the University of Geneva used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to spot the most distant quiescent galaxy ever found. The discovery, made just 700 million years after ...