The galaxy NGC 5084 has been around for centuries. In 1785, it was first catalogued by William Herschel and has been well studied. It's what is known as a lenticular galaxy – one that's ...

March 19–26, 2015: Elliptical galaxies M84 and M86 in Virgo and spiral galaxy M98 in Coma Berenices all offer small-telescope owners nice views, while large-telescope owners can seek out the ...

Voyager 2 revealed Uranus' moon Miranda's surprising surface. ... Except for the modern-art tapestries of diffuse nebulae, most objects — star clusters, elliptical galaxies, ...

The Sombrero Galaxy, also called M104 or NGC 4594, is about 28 million light-years from our planet in the constellation Virgo. It is so named because the halo surrounding its disc is unusually ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, the spiral galaxy has only one visible arm.

New clues to how giant elliptical galaxies move have been discovered by an international team of astronomers. Elliptical galaxies have long been considered as essentially being made up of old ...

Astronomers have believed since the 1960s that a galaxy dubbed UGC 1382 was a relatively boring, small elliptical galaxy. Now, using a series of multi-wavelength surveys, astronomers have ...

As for Uranus, the image ... Both orbits are slightly oval shaped, called elliptical, and in 2022, Jupiter came its closest to Earth in 70 years. ... It shows a pair of galaxies, ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects of the sun's ...