The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Reticulum, approximately 35 million light-years ...
Spiral galaxy NGC 628 is 32 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. Webb’s image of NGC 628 shows a densely populated face-on spiral galaxy anchored by its central region ...
Messier 77 (or M77 for short, also known as NGC 1068) is a barred spiral galaxy located some 47 million light years away. It hosts an active galactic nucleus (AGN), which globally ionizes gas in ...
NGC 2397, pictured in this image from Hubble, is a classic spiral galaxy with long prominent dust lanes along the edges of its arms, seen as dark patches and streaks silhouetted against the starlight.
Not quite the Fab Four This week’s second large-telescope target is spiral galaxy NGC 7184. It glows at magnitude 10.9 and measures 6.5′ by 1.4′. This target sits in a desolate region of ...
NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother’. When you purchase through links on our ...
Slightly southern galaxies This week’s second large-telescope target is elliptical galaxy NGC 7103 in the zodiacal constellation Capricornus. It’s actually part of a small group of galaxies ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor. The image reveals NGC 3430 as a ...