The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a highly irregular galaxy known as ESO 174-1 located about 11 million light-years from Earth.

The Hubble Space Telescope has spied on the Milky Way's galactic neighbor, irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, imaging it as a lonely hazy cloud.

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time. With respect to structure, there are three types of galaxies: spiral, ...

It’s also a small galaxy, so it’s a type classified as an irregular dwarf galaxy. The galaxy featured in this Picture of the Week has a shape unlike many of the galaxies familiar to Hubble.

The Small Magellanic Cloud , a companion satellite of the Milky Way, is an irregular galaxy. Its sibling, the Large Magellanic Cloud , appears irregular at first by eye, but we now ...

NGC 2814, along with another irregular galaxy (IC 2458) and a spiral galaxy (NGC 2820), form a trio located roughly 230,000 light years away from the very large galaxy NGC 2805.

About two-thirds of spiral galaxies are barred spirals, in which the central disk is stretched out into a ribbon. The Milky Way belongs to this class, as well as our nearest galactic neighbor, the ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way but is still about 2.5 million light years away. It is the only spiral galaxy you can see with the naked eye. Irregular galaxies ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first picture released to the public showed off thousands of galaxies. At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little ...

The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is dominated by a stellar photobomber, the bright star BD+17 2217.