Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the edge of a spiral. Located roughly 150 ... of the galaxy sports a glowing, almost egg-shaped “bulge,” rising far above and below the ...

The shapes can seem to appear out of nowhere: an undulating S-like spiral streaking across the European skies or a glowing orb trailing above the North American coast. Such strange light shows ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with ...

Day 3 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Hubble Space Telescope ... Lenticular galaxies have an elliptical shape and ill-defined spiral arms. NGC 4753 sits about 60 million light ...

“This fuel formed an expanding, swirling cloud that developed into a giant spiral shape as it travelled over the Atlantic. “These sightings are becoming common in some parts of the ...