Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...
Stellar bars play an important role in galaxy evolution by funneling gas into the central regions of a galaxy, where it is rapidly converted into new stars, at a rate typically 10 to 100 times as ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light ...
Oscar Wilde once said: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." I guess I would be that person who's always searching for the beauty in life no matter the circumstances.
This view of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, from the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument, is studded by the galaxy’s massive population of stars, most dense along its bright ...
So here—just in case you missed them—are eight great galaxies photographed by Hubble that have been published in the last couple of months. NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy, located ...
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 ...
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to find three of the earliest galaxies ever found. They exist less than 400 million years after the Big Bang—a whopping 13.4 billion ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or M31, is a barred spiral galaxy similar in size and structure to our own Milky Way. Located approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth ...