Based on the comet's brightness and current distance — it's located just inside Jupiter's orbit — scientists estimate its ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the ...

Stargazers have plenty of night sky events to look forward to in July. After all the stunning celestial displays so far in ...

In a groundbreaking study recently published on the arXiv preprint server, researchers have proposed two innovative ...

A view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3982, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical ...

Type c-D elliptical galaxies are a subtype of giant elliptical galaxies and are characterized by a large halo of stars. Lenticular galaxies are an intermediate galaxy between elliptical galaxies and ...

Galaxy Arp 184, however, we are seeing from an angle, so it looks different. More than that, though, Arp 184 is skewed so that it isn’t perfectly spiral shaped.

In 1994, Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 captured an image of an object at the center of M87, a giant elliptical galaxy 50 million light-years away.

Two of the most prominent lie roughly 1.3° west-northwest of M87: These are M84 and M86, two more elliptical galaxies separated by just ¼°.

But, while most FRBs originate well within their galaxies, the team traced FRB 20240209A to the outskirts of its home — 130,000 lightyears from the galaxy’s center where few other stars exist.

There are also elliptical galaxies, which are large and spherical rather than flat, similar to a rugby ball. The latter don’t produce new stars but are dominated by stars formed more than 10 ...

Galaxies are broadly divided into three groups. You have the spirals like the Milky Way and Andromeda, the irregular galaxies, and the elliptical galaxies. This latter group tends to have the most ...