Hubble has captured a striking new image of NGC 2775, a galaxy that defies easy classification. Blending features of spirals, ellipticals, and lenticulars, its puzzling structure may be the result of ...

NGC 6951 shines 70 million light-years away, its spiral arms feeding a brilliant central starburst ring bursting with new ...

NGC 2775 has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, ...

Hubble's sharp resolution allows observers to pore over the galaxy's details, showing that it has traits of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Its core appears unusually smooth and gas-poor, traits ...

Floating high above Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured some of the most breathtaking images ever seen — galaxies colliding, stars being born, and nebulae glowing in cosmic ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers estimate that there could be 100 million black holes ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that's hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab ...

On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown ...

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