Explore the warped spiral galaxy NGC 3718 and its neighbor NGC 3729 — a dynamic duo of deep-sky oddities in the constellation ...

Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

Spiral galaxies can be further divided into two groups: normal spirals and barred spirals. In barred spirals, a bar of stars ...

The highly inclined barred spiral M108 in Ursa Major is sometimes called the Surfboard Galaxy. It's not to be missed.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 2283, which is located about 45 million light-years ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Hubble’s view of UGC 5460, a sparkling spiral in Ursa Major, reveals its starry bar and blue clusters-alongside a nearby ...

A research team led by Huang targeted a monster galaxy with a barred spiral structure in the universe 11.1 billion years ago. The galaxy called J0107a, located at a redshift of z=2.467, was ...

Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has important similarities and differences with modern galaxies. This improves ...

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.

A giant spiral galaxy, nicknamed “Big Wheel,” as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope from some two billion years after the big bang. Big Wheel’s starry disk stretches across more than ...