In this scene, the nearer galaxy SDSS J020941.27+001558.4, is acting like a colossal magnifying glass in the sky. This allows ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that ...

A sparkling cloudscape is revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which used its instruments to capture multiple wavelengths ...

A sweeping cosmic census from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled nearly 1,700 galaxy groups—marking the deepest and ...

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

Most elliptical galaxies can usually be found ... nobody is completely sure how these tidal-like shells formed around the galaxy. NASA’s Hubble space telescope has discovered some fantastic ...

Elliptical galaxy NGC 3561B (upper left) and spiral galaxy NGC 3561A (lower right) form a shimmering guitar shape in the ongoing merger known collectively as Arp 105. CREDITS: NASA, ESA and M.

ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll Messier 104 was discovered ... and yet the spheroidal bulge and halo are evocative of an elliptical galaxy. As a whole, the apparent Frankenstein-ing together of these ...

An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy ... The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however NASA's James Webb Space ...

It is a compact elliptical-shaped galaxy. Together, their appearance is suggestive of a penguin guarding its egg. Their interaction, according to NASA, was set in motion between 25 and 75 million ...

from the remnants of a supernova to a nebula thousands of light-years from Earth to the center of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a NASA news release. The images are part of nearly 25,000 ...