The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of interacting elliptical and spiral galaxies known as Arp 107. Credit: ...

Why it's so special: NGC 4694 is a galaxy that cannot be easily classified into one of the two basic galaxy types: spiral and elliptical. Astronomers needed to examine its properties in detail to ...

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

This process won't be complete for many millions of years — until then, Queen Berenice II will have to suffer the knots in ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing in primary colors.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...

This image, showing an elliptical galaxy (left) and a spiral galaxy (right) includes near-infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope, and ultraviolet and visible light from the Hubble ...

Centaurus A is an elliptical galaxy located about 13 million light-years from Earth. This color composite image reveals the lobes and jets emanating from the active galaxy’s central black hole.

It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy—known as Messier 105—show that the stars near the galaxy ...