Recently, NASA has captured stunning images of these ... it helps scientists understand how spiral galaxies form. Messier 87, or M87, is a big elliptical galaxy in the Virgo cluster, about 120,000 ...

NGC 6872 (Condor Galaxy): A large barred spiral galaxy (type SBb pec) in the constellation Pavo, situated 212 million light-years from Earth. Malin 1: A massive, low surface brightness spiral ...

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet ...

Scarlet plumes of hydrogen emanate from the lively cosmic portrait of the galaxy Messier 82 (M82 ... It was assembled using shots taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in both infrared and ...

As NASA looks toward long-term lunar missions, a few problems have arisen -- specifically, how to create less trash in space and what to do with the trash that people create. That's why the US ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the constellation Virgo. In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created ...

Discovered in 1781, Messier 105 lies about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion) and is the brightest elliptical galaxy within the Leo I galaxy group. Provided by NASA ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly ...

One of the most famous photos ever taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is known as the “Pillars of Creation.” The ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the constellation Virgo. The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA ...

The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image ... observed by amateur astronomers as the more famous Messier objects. NGC 5248 is one of the so-called "grand design ...

120,000 light-years across, this spiral galaxy is one of the largest known, with a massive central bulge. 240,000 light-years wide, this giant elliptical galaxy is a beacon of light in the Virgo ...