Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Among a "field of galaxies;" the James Webb Space Telescope captured spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648, a billion light-years from ...

See views of The Horsehead Nebula, the Perseus Cluster of galaxies, spiral galaxy IC 342, irregular galaxy NGC 6822 and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The newly identified spiral galaxy Alaknanda, shown in the inset, appears in shorter-wavelength observations from the James Webb ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

Day 12 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Barred Spiral. This galaxy, NGC 5335, is categorized as a flocculent spiral galaxy, displaying a striking barlike structure across its center. The ...

A black hole inside a distant spiral galaxy is devouring material from the universe around it and creating winds at speeds never before seen by astronomers. The European Space Agency said that the ...

Scientists have discovered Alaknanda, a so-called "grand design" spiral galaxy, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA / CSA / ESA / Rashi Jain For decades, astronomers believed ...

A paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, details the discovery of a grand-design spiral galaxy that formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Grand design galaxies are similar to the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...