The NSF NOIRLab-operated Gemini North telescope captured stunning imagery of galaxies UGC 12914 and UGC 12915, aka 'Taffy Galaxies.' Their 'twisted appearance is the result of a head-on collision' ...

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What looks like a galactic dance is really a cosmic optical illusion—two galaxies, worlds apart, perfectly aligned by chance.

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Hubble captures a dazzling stellar nursery where newborn stars light up and carve their way through glowing clouds in a ...

Lurking in the southwestern corner of Aquarius the Water-bearer, globular cluster M72 doesn't stand out. At magnitude 9.4, it ...

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Explore Hubble's sharpest image of lens-shaped NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy with swirling rings of dust and gas, 187 million light-years away.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new photo of the lenticular galaxy NGC 7722.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features an uncommon galaxy with a striking appearance. NGC 7722 is a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation ...

The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, focused on the Hubble Legacy Archive and a dataset built from it: 99.6 ...