A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Messier 81, a grand design spiral galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth ... by capturing images of brilliant bursts of color in the sky. Well, not quite “in the sky”—Webb itself is ...

A smaller white ring remains closer to the galaxy's center, while the outer ring, with its spokes of color, has been expanding ... which is believed to have been a spiral galaxy like our own ...

The Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes join forces to give us this dazzling and colorful view of spiral galaxy NGC 1566: a swirling scaffolding of dense dusty filaments, shining star clusters ...

Astronomers are using Hubble to study vivid gas clouds and newborn stars in the tilted spiral galaxy NGC 3511.

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 ...

A barred spiral galaxy exists in the universe's infancy ... To a layperson, the picture below may look like little more than a colorful blob — and when looking at information coming from the ...

The NGC 5068 galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy, the same type as our home Milky Way. And the celestial body lies within the Virgo constellation, which is home to an enormous cluster of galaxies.

has caught yet another spectacle in a newly released image of a “cosmic tornado” forming billows of gas and dust that appear to be crowned with a spiral galaxy. This colorful display, known as ...

"Peculiar" spiral galaxy Arp 184 or NGC 1961 as captured by NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope. | Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), C. Kilpatrick Arp 184 or NGC ...