Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Spiral galaxies can be further divided into two groups: normal spirals and barred spirals. In barred spirals, a bar of stars ...

The highly inclined barred spiral M108 in Ursa Major is sometimes called the Surfboard Galaxy. It's not to be missed.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 2283, which is located about 45 million light-years ...

Some ten million light-years away from Earth sits a brilliant spiral galaxy officially called NGC 253 but known by many ...

Left: Near-infrared image of a nearby galaxy VV114 and the background monster barred spiral galaxy J0107a at z=2.433 captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA.

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 ...

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A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...

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An international team of astronomers recently made a major discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). They identified a giant grand-design spiral galaxy, named Zhúlóng, which could well be ...

The galaxy’s existence suggests that even 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—which is to say, early in the universe’s existence—well-articulated spiral galaxies existed.