Galaxies are thought to form and grow by collisions and mergers, and elliptical galaxies may be the ultimate result of this ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

In a groundbreaking study recently published on the arXiv preprint server, researchers have proposed two innovative ...

A view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3982, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical ...

Type c-D elliptical galaxies are a subtype of giant elliptical galaxies and are characterized by a large halo of stars. Lenticular galaxies are an intermediate galaxy between elliptical galaxies and ...

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.

But, while most FRBs originate well within their galaxies, the team traced FRB 20240209A to the outskirts of its home — 130,000 lightyears from the galaxy’s center where few other stars exist.

The IC 1101 is a lenticular galaxy. These galaxies fall between spiral and elliptical in terms of their shape. They have a disc structure similar to spiral galaxies but lack spiral arms.

Galaxies are broadly divided into three groups. You have the spirals like the Milky Way and Andromeda, the irregular galaxies, and the elliptical galaxies. This latter group tends to have the most ...

Here’s how it works. The unusual galaxy NGC 4694 has traits unique to the two main galaxy types, spiral and elliptical.(Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker) ...

And we see this throughout the solar system. If you look, for example, at Pluto, it'll go around on this elliptical orbit twice in the same time Neptune has gone around three times.