Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

However, it wasn’t until the work of Edwin Hubble (for which the famous telescope is named) that astronomers realized objects like Messier 83 are actually other galaxies outside the Milky Way.

New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict traditional theories about early galaxy formation, revealing ...

One of the most famous galaxies in the collection is the so-called "Southern Pinwheel" galaxy, also known as NGC 5236 or M83. It is located around 15 million light-years away. "We strive to ...

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

Light from the very distant and ancient galaxies is shifted towards very long wavelengths by the famous red shift of the expanding universe, as explored by Edwin P. Hubble himself. Light that was ...

The views span the universe from nebulae to galaxies to the planet Jupiter ... The image encompasses the epic Pillars of Creation, a famous cosmic formation that has enchanted Earthlings for ...

NGC 4496 in the constellation Virgo consists of two spiral galaxies, NGC 4496A (upper large galaxy) and NGC 4496B (lower galaxy). They are in the same line of sight from Earth but located at quite ...