Astronomers have discovered the most distant and Milky-Way-like galaxy yet. The disc galaxy ... time to develop unique shapes and features like spiral arms. In the early universe, galaxies were ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what ...

Not only does it seemingly exist too early in the cosmos to be strongly spinning, the galaxy also shows hints of spiral arms ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the sun—which is pretty big—plus young jets ...

Pinwheel Galaxy. Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and host six detected supernovae. This image was captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

They identified a giant grand-design spiral galaxy, named Zhúlóng, which could well be the most distant ever observed. This galaxy, located at a photometric redshift of about 5.2, has a mass ...

That’s because M101 is a grand spiral galaxy, with arms full of stars ... A cloud of gas and dust expanding into space with a spinning pulsar at its core, we know it was seen by humans because ...

This image of a spiral galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, will be on a new United States Postal Service stamp scheduled to be released to the public Jan. 21. Danny Dale, a ...