Lying some 85 million light years away, tucked deep within the Ursa Major constellation, lies the galaxy NGC 2814. Unlike the eye-catching, spiral-shaped family of galaxies (of which the Milky Way is ...

This striking pair is an elliptical galaxy NGC 541 and an unusual star-forming, irregular dwarf galaxy known as Minkowski’s Object (the bluish object to the lower left of NGC 541). Elliptical galaxies ...

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope is notable for the way it was composed as much as for the object it shows. Composed of two different exposures which have been merged, it shows the ...

Just in time for Santa's arrival, NASA has shared an image of a galaxy that looks just like what it describes as a "sparkling snow globe." The galaxy, named UGC 8091, is situated around 7 million ...