When it was shared: Sept. 30, 2024 Why it's so special: NGC 4694 is a galaxy that cannot be easily classified into one of the two basic galaxy types: spiral and elliptical.

Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the galaxy. These scorching worlds are as massive as Jupiter, and they swing wildly close to their star, whirling around in a few days compared ...

Why it's so special: NGC 4694 is a galaxy that cannot be easily classified into one of the two basic galaxy types: spiral and elliptical. Astronomers needed to examine its properties in detail to ...

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 ...

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 two different galaxies get close enough together that they begin interacting, they are sometimes given a shared name. That’s the case with a newly released image from the Hubble Space ...

If you were to spring from Earth so high you could glance down at the entire Milky Way, our home galaxy would look like a spinning pinwheel. In it, some 100 billion stars are sprinkled across some ...

The Penguin (individually cataloged as NGC 2936) is a former spiral galaxy, deformed by the close passage of the elliptical Egg (NGC 2937) during their first pass. The galactic dance between the ...

Like large galaxies, dwarfs may be spiral or barred spiral, elliptical, or irregular. They also vary in size and mass. The Sculptor Dwarf is a lightweight, coming in at only 30 million solar masses.