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

so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design spiral. "Zhúlóng shows that mature galaxies emerged much earlier than expected in the ...

so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design spiral. The galaxy's name is Zhúlóng, after the Torch Dragon of Chinese myth, and its ...

and its extreme age could challenge current understanding of galaxy formation. Credit: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. NASA’s James Webb Telescope unexpectedly spotted a massive spiral galaxy, ...

New U.S. Postal Service stamps released last week feature images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

It is located in an unusual galaxy studied by aspiring naval officer Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy during an intensive research internship. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the Sun -- which is pretty big -- plus young ...

First up is the Andromeda Galaxy, our closest neighbour in the cosmos, featuring stunning spiral arms and a vibrant central core. Next is the Whirlpool Galaxy, a breathtaking spiral with a ...

"Our finding offers key constraints for models of massive galaxy formation and the origin of spiral structures in the early universe." In the Universe around us today, galaxies come in a number of ...

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into question the mechanisms at play in the formation of quasar jets.

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Unusual detection bolsters evidence that the mysterious signals can be caused by different astrophysical events.