NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of, NGC 474, an elliptical galaxy that's 2.5 times larger than our Milky Way.

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.

If you ever get out away from city lights and just stare up at the night sky, you might start noticing more than just the pinpricks of lights of individual stars. You may see smudges of light acros… ...

The Sombrero Galaxy, also called M104 or NGC 4594, is about 28 million light-years from our planet in the constellation Virgo. It is so named because the halo surrounding its disc is unusually ...

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Astronomers have pulled back curtains of space dust to find a star-spangled show: a massive pair of galaxies smashing into each other to form, eventually, an even bigger elliptical galaxy, one ...

Galaxies that are not spiral, lenticular, or elliptical are called irregular galaxies.Irregular galaxies—such as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds that flank our Milky Way—appear misshapen ...

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.

These compact elliptical galaxies are fairly rare. Until 2013, only 30 or so had been found, and they were all huddling next to giant galaxies near the center of large clusters of galaxies.

Making monster galaxies. When two spiral galaxies — like our Milky Way and the nearby Andromeda Galaxy — collide, they can merge and form an elliptical galaxy.