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.

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 ...

A pair of interacting galaxies, formally known as MCG+05-31-045, were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The pair consists of a larger elliptical galaxy siphoning material from a smaller ...

Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has ...

The ancient elliptical galaxy where astronomers discovered the radio waves is about 2 billion light-years from Earth and is about 11.3 billion years old, according to the paper.

The new findings beg the question of how reliable such interpretations can be if elliptical galaxies account for at least 1.4 percent of the total measured radiation previously attributed to the CMB.

There are also elliptical galaxies, which are large and spherical rather than flat, similar to a rugby ball. The latter don’t produce new stars but are dominated by stars formed more than 10 ...

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) ...