Indeed, much — and perhaps most — of star formation within a galaxy takes place inside these feathers. At first, astronomers thought feathers were a feature of only the largest grand-design spirals.

Using Spektr-RG and Chandra space observatories, Chinese astronomers have investigated a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC ...

April’s nights see some of the sky’s largest constellations, and from their vastness spring a laundry list of celestial and ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar galaxies of the same epoch. Galactic disks are flat, rotating ...

The Milky Way (bottom) compared to the larger galaxy 2MASX J23453268-0449256. Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al / Hubble Space Telescope The cosmic quandary of the expansive spiral galaxy 2MASX ...

A massive spiral galaxy known as J2345-0449 emits powerful radio jets more than 5 million light-years long. | Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al/Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (CC BY 4.0) Nearly a ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three times the size of the Milky Way. Like our own galaxy, a supermassive ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The composite image makes it look as though the ...

Astronomers studying a massive and unusual spiral galaxy have found hints at the possible fate of our own home, the Milky Way. When looking at the universe, we have found plenty of evidence to ...

Time-lapse video taken from Croatia at around 4 p.m. EST, or 9 p.m. local time, shows the glowing light spinning across the sky in what many social media commentators likened to a spiral galaxy.

The largest "grand design" spirals can host a dozen or more ... Hubble telescope spies striking spiral galaxy that's part of a huge cosmic structure Then, the researchers compared the feathers ...