While bulges are a common component of spiral galaxies ... is also suspected to have caused the galaxy’s warped appearance, with the disk bending upwards on one side and downwards on the ...

New astronomical observation technologies are revealing the secrets of our Galaxy ... identified an ancient component of the Milky Way, named the original galactic disk, or PanGu.

Hubble’s 35‑year celebration brings a vibrant reimagining of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing hidden dust lanes and far‑flung ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

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Dubbed the “Big Wheel,” it’s a galaxy much like our own Milky Way—a humongous, spiraling disk of stars, gas and cosmic dust. But Big Wheel is even bigger than our home galaxy; it’s some ...

Published last week in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, their findings highlight the galaxy's bizarre combination of structural components ... an accretion disk squeezes ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...