Hubble has captured UGC 8091, a festive bundle of lights. Located about seven million light-years away in the Virgo constellation, it’s also known as GR 8.

Quasars are the most luminous type of active galaxy. They emit light across the electromagnetic spectrum, produce powerful ...

Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy ... 81 (M81), a grand design spiral galaxy located about 12 million ...

While we have plenty of spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, these are only the most common types of galaxies out there. There are still others, like elliptical or irregular galaxies.

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter will align within the elliptical plane, offering a striking celestial display. This rare alignment is linked with significant astrological energy ...

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar ... the product of multiple galaxy collisions leaving them with an elliptical shape.

He maintained that the Milky Way galaxy was so huge, it must encompass the entirety of the universe. Shapley insisted that the mysteriously fuzzy "spiral nebulae," such as Andromeda, were simply ...

after going through messy mergers and have come out with an elliptical shape,” explained Nyland. “It’s extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole ...

(AP Photo/Maria Ximena, file) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The number of irregular border crossings into the European Union fell ...

"Because it's such a large supermassive black hole at the center, we'd predicted we'd see an elliptical galaxy." The spiral host galaxy, a quasar named J0742+2704, was discovered emanating a ...