In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

I don't usually compare what we see going on out there in space with mediaeval ritual, but in this case it is hard to resist.

A team of astrophysicists believes that the bright elliptical galaxies without a defined center are more common than swirling galaxies because of the difference in density of the environments ...

From stars and nebulas shining hundreds of light-years away, to views of closer cosmic objects like Mars ... see spiral galaxies that look like our own along with yellow-tinged elliptical galaxies ...

What it is: The galaxy NGC 4694, a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster Where it is: 54 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Virgo When it was shared: Sept. 30, 2024 Why it's so ...

Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has ...

These FRBs, named FRB 20240209A, are located outside of the massive ancient elliptical galaxy it is associated with that only contains old and dead stars, Shah said. Using the James Webb Space ...

But other spiral galaxies are surprisingly rare along this gigantic plane, while bright elliptical galaxies are far more common. Now, astronomers suggest this is because a violent history of ...

spiral galaxies like our Milky Way, elliptical galaxies which are long and thin, and lenticular galaxies which are somewhat halfway between the two. But some galaxies are oddities that don’t fit ...

The physicist, together with scientist Dr. Eda Gjergo from the University of Nanjing in China, has been investigating a particular group of galaxies called elliptical galaxies. "The universe has ...