Galaxies are classified into elliptical, lenticular, and spiral (or barred spiral) galaxies. Galaxies with irregular shapes ...

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 ...

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 ...

How it formed remains a cosmic mystery. Under the standard Hubble sequence method of classification, galaxies typically fall into one of four categories: elliptical, lenticular, spiral and irregular.

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 ...

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

This remarkable image, captured by Japan's Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, actually shows something much more special: an extremely rare triple-ring galaxy located about 800 million light ...