The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...

NASA Hubble Space Telescope has clicked an attention to detail image of spiral galaxy NGC 1309. The European Space Agency ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, ...

In the sprawling Hydra constellation, 137 million light-years away, lies NGC 3285B—a dazzling spiral galaxy recently ...

The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years ...

The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this composite from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. | Credit ...

Spiral galaxy IC 5332, taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with its MIRI instrument. CREDITS: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST and PHANGS-HST Teams.

Though galaxies that contain sufficient reservoirs of gas can form new stars, which may spread out into spiral arms, that wouldn't apply to elliptical galaxies, as they tend to be gas-poor.

And they are! There’s a really easy way to spot this difference; spiral galaxies are incredibly, incredibly thin. The thickness of the spiral disk of our own Milky Way is only about 0.6 light ...

The oldest known spiral galaxy observed before Thursday's study was seen in by the ALMA telescope in 2019. It was formed 2.5 billion years after the Big Bang, about a billion years later than BRI ...