First up is the Andromeda Galaxy, our closest neighbour in the cosmos, featuring stunning spiral arms and a vibrant central core. Next is the Whirlpool Galaxy, a breathtaking spiral with a ...

Wherever we look in the Universe we see spiral galaxies. 70% of all galaxies today have this spiral structure that show up in their stars and their gas that’s used to make more s ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some stunning images of a ‘Grand Design’ spiral galaxy, revealing intricate details of its swirling arms and structure. The Southern Pinwheel ...

In a nutshell A rare cosmic alignment has given astronomers an unprecedented view of two galaxies from 7 billion years ago, ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two ...

NGC 5283 is a Seyfert galaxy. The lenticular galaxy NGC 5283 is the subject of this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes center stage in this image from the ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the sun—which is pretty big—plus young jets ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what ...