Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a fully formed barred spiral galaxy that existed when the ...

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble themselves from the surrounding primordial soup. A new discovery right at ...

A spectacular spiral galaxy known as M88 is traveling toward the crowded heart of the Virgo Cluster, where powerful forces ...

Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has important similarities and differences with modern galaxies. This improves our ...

The galaxy, Messier 77, is known as "The Squid" due to its curling "tentacles" ...

In this new image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a spiral galaxy glittering with star clusters is the center of attention. NGC 3137 is located 53 million light-years away in the constellation ...

A spiral galaxy's brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA's Webb Space Telescope. The image released this week depicts the Messier 77 galaxy 45 million light-years ...

Webb and Hubble sink deep into the dazzling Whirlpool Galaxy — Space photo of the week Hubble revisits stunning Trifid Nebula after 30 years, and spots a growing jet of energy — Space photo of the ...

Cambridge, MA (March 23, 2026) — A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic archaeology, the study of detailed chemical ...

The Webb Space Telescope is ushering in the New Year in a similar fashion to us humans, by capturing images of brilliant bursts of color in the sky. Well, not quite “in the sky”—Webb itself is a ...

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