Galaxies come in an array of shapes. Some, like the Milky Way, are composed of arms of well-ordered stars revolving in a spiral shape around a central concentration or "bulge" of stellar bodies.

They found that, if the object followed one specific path, it could have skimmed past the disk about 12,000 years ago, perturbing the dust just enough to result in the vivid spiral shape seen today.

The Hubble data clearly shows J0742+2704 is still a spiral galaxy, but there are some hints of interactions with other objects that could offer hints as to its evolution. For example, one of its ...

Galaxies come in an array of shapes. Some, like the Milky Way, are composed of arms of well-ordered stars revolving in a spiral shape around a central concentration or "bulge" of stellar bodies ...

NASA and the European Space Agency recently shared an image of NGC 1961, an oddly shaped spiral galaxy located about 190 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis, or "The ...

The shapes can seem to appear out of nowhere: an undulating S-like spiral streaking across the European skies or a glowing orb trailing above the North American coast.

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