An elliptical galaxy (left) and a spiral galaxy (right). The image includes near-infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope and ultraviolet and visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope.

It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.

A glittering host of galaxies populate this rich image taken with ESO's VLT Survey Telescope, a state-of-the-art 2.6-m telescope designed for surveying the sky in visible light. The features of ...

Astronomers at the University of Southampton are hoping to solve what they are calling an “intergalactic mystery” of how elliptical galaxies were created up to 12 billion years ago.

When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it.. That glowing curve isn't the ...

Astronomers recently mapped the rarest type of galaxy ever found: an elliptical galaxy sporting rings of young stars. Most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are spiral or elliptical. But this ...

Within the constellation Virgo numerous galaxies that comprise the Virgo Cluster, including the potato-shaped elliptical M87, whose supermassive black hole was imaged in 2019. Up Next Previous ...

The Milky Way sits within a galaxy cluster on the Supergalactic Plane — a billion light-year-wide sheet, or "supercluster," upon which large galaxy clusters are pinned. But other spiral galaxies ...

Yet it also radiates a diffuse glow, much like an elliptical galaxy and its core of older, redder stars. This galactic marvel is known to astronomers as NGC 1156. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. B. Tully, R ...

When galaxies merge, they can form a whole new type of galaxy. For example, when two spiral galaxies collide , it's thought to create what's called an elliptical galaxy.

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now -- and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky ...