In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located ...

The spiral galaxy known as Messier 81 (M81) has a rosy tint in this June 1, 2007, composite image that incorporates data from ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

Rather than solid arms, spiral galaxies may show density waves—regions where matter slows down and bunches up, like cars in ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its galaxy ripping a star to shreds — offering for the first time ...

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A distant and dazzling spiral galaxy, Arp 184 (NGC 1961), captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a stunningly ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...

Young globular cluster NGC 1850 hosts two stellar generations, red giants, blue stars, and a black hole in Magellanic Cloud.

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...