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Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, winding spiral arms and ongoing star formation. Ellipticals ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sensitive gaze to a flocculent spiral galaxy. Astronomers are interested in ...

A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it looks like nothing special. No bright spiral arms. No obvious central bulge. Not even the soft smudge you ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a barred spiral galaxy. The observation was part of a campaign to better understand ...

In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible—low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by dark ...

This deep space image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope contains CDG-2, a dark matter-dominated galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / David Li et al. / J. DePasquale Astronomers have spotted something ...

NASA has completed assembly and testing on the 300MP Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, meaning a launch could come as soon as ...