Russian astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a unique extremely metal-poor luminous blue variable star ...

This dream-like Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy known as NGC 3156. It is a lenticular galaxy, meaning that it falls somewhere between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy.

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

Sometimes life’s struggles are easier to laugh at when you see them happening to animals—and that’s exactly what Irregular Galaxy Doodles delivers. These funny, relatable comics put animals ...

This week’s large-telescope target is irregular galaxy NGC 2366 in the faint northern constellation Camelopardalis the Giraffe. It glows at magnitude 10.8 and measures 8.2′ by 3.3′.

these are only the most common types of galaxies out there. There are still others, like elliptical or irregular galaxies. But only 1 out of 10,000 falls into this super rare category, Siegel says.

Caption Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope ...

Image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253, located at a distance of about 11 million light years from us, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian telescope managed by the Italian ...

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image ...