"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

NASA welcomed the new year by releasing a series of 19 gorgeous images of spiral galaxies. Combining data from the JWST’s ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a ...

I’ll begin with C65, also known as the Silver Dollar Galaxy (NGC 253 ... Many other Caldwell objects lurk in the southern sky. I’ll return to them in future columns when they climb higher ...

These density waves are thought to cause the spiral nature of the galaxy. So, by examining the sky in multiple wavelengths ...

Explore the dynamic life of the spiral galaxy NGC 337 as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, featuring a mix of old and ...

another spiral galaxy that has a similar name due to its similar shape, but which is located in a different area of the sky — 110 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major.

And that’s how we find objects in the sky. For example, a galaxy might have a coordinate of, say, 16 hours, 34 minutes and 3.25 seconds in RA and –32 degrees, 10 minutes and 49 seconds in dec ...