Yale astronomers have announced the discovery of a galaxy with nine concentric rings—the most rings ever seen in a single ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy —at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

The “Great Attractor” is a fascinating cosmic phenomenon that has long captivated astronomers. The Milky Way and millions of other galaxies in our local universe are being drawn towards it at ...

“Even basic ideas have been revised, such as the rotation of our Galaxy’s central bar, the warp of the disc, the detailed structure of spiral arms, and interstellar dust near the Sun.” “Still, the ...

The European Space Agency's Milky ... Milky Way. Even basic ideas have been revised, such as the rotation of our galaxy's central bar, the warp of the disk, the detailed structure of spiral ...

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years, shut down science operations on Wednesday (Jan. 15). The close of the mission's data-collecting phase was necessitated by ...

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach uncovered some surprising attributes of this quasar, including its rare spiral structure and the presence of young jets. These features shed light on the ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star made of mysterious "fuzzy" matter. When you purchase through links on ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the Sun -- which is pretty big -- plus young ...