An elliptical galaxy (left) and a spiral galaxy (right). The image includes near-infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope and ultraviolet and visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers have found one of the largest-ever black holes in giant galaxy NGC 4889, some 300 million light years away. The Hubble space telescope has captured an incredible image of elliptical ...

Elliptical galaxy—A galaxy that appears round or elliptical and lacks a disk with spiral arms. ... Kuiper Belt—A donut-shaped region of comets in orbit beyond Neptune, ...

It took just a few minutes for the telescope to image Neptune close up, and another 20 to take a wider view, revealing not just the planet but myriad galaxies behind it stretching into the cosmos.

This is not an internal reflection — it’s a 10th-magnitude elliptical galaxy some 8,000 light-years away (far beyond Mirach, ... Neptune will require a telescope to spot, ...

His study looks at how many red dwarfs are in elliptical-shaped galaxies. ... It is more comparable to Neptune and circles a star about 42 light-years from Earth.

Yet it also radiates a diffuse glow, much like an elliptical galaxy and its core of older, redder stars. This galactic marvel is known to astronomers as NGC 1156. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. B. Tully, R ...

Galaxy Arp 184, however, we are seeing from an angle, so it looks different. More than that, though, Arp 184 is skewed so that it isn’t perfectly spiral shaped.

When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it.. That glowing curve isn't the ...

Astronomers have created a 3D map of the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and gotten a better estimate of the mass of its central supermassive black hole. Skip to main content.

It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.

What happens when you build the largest digital camera on Earth, capable of capturing 3.2 gigapixel images, and aim it at the ...