The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4214 resides about 10 million light-years away. The galaxy’s relative proximity, combined with the wide variety of evolutionary stages among its stars. This image from ...

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

The new images show these iconic galaxies in great detail, immortalizing their shape, colors and distribution of stars up to great distances from the center. Two of them, the irregular galaxy NGC ...

NGC 5283 is a Seyfert galaxy. The lenticular galaxy NGC 5283 is the subject of this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes center stage in this image from the ...

No, that's not an interstellar bull's-eye. This remarkable image, captured by Japan's Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, actually shows something much more special: an extremely rare triple ...

Hubble has captured UGC 8091, a festive bundle of lights. Located about seven million light-years away in the Virgo constellation, it’s also known as GR 8.

The starburst galaxy NGC 1569 glows brilliantly, illuminated by the light of millions of newly formed young stars. This image of LH63, cloaked in red, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Quasars are the most luminous type of active galaxy. They emit light across the electromagnetic spectrum, produce powerful ...

He thought that, despite their abundance, galaxies came in just a few specific shapes: pinwheel spirals, football-shaped ellipticals, and oddball irregular galaxies. He thought these might be ...