A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

The Hubble Classification, also known as the Hubble Sequence, is a widely recognized method for systematically categorizing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of galaxies LEDA 48062 and UGC 8603. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R.

Image of lenticular galaxy NGC 1277 taken with Hubble Space Telescope. This small, flattened galaxy contains one of the most massive central black holes ever found. At 17 billion solar masses ...

The Milky Way has no fewer than 157, but more globular clusters are thought to exist within the innermost regions of the ...

The new tail was serendipitously identified in DECaLS images, in an isolated environment associated with NGC 3785—a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo. "We have discovered an ...

This category includes both spiral and lenticular galaxies. The shape of a disk galaxy resembles a flat disk of tens or hundreds of billions of stars. This range includes the Milky Way and its ...

As M90 continues to move toward us over billions of years, it will also be evolving into a lenticular galaxy.