A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is located roughly 40 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lupus.

Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...

M31, the spiral galaxy in Andromeda ... old American astronomer called Edwin Hubble published a groundbreaking discovery in The New York Times. The Andromeda nebula — the name astronomers ...

The American astronomer at the centre of the article, Dr Edwin Powell Hubble ... within our Milky Way galaxy, were located outside it. These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier ...

The outer ring of the galaxy, which appeared smoother in images taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope, but lumpy in the Hubble visible ... us than our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy, and was first ...

These objects were actually the Andromeda ... telescope observations at Harvard College Observatory, Massachusetts. Leavitt studied photographic plates from telescope observations of another ...

A Jellyfish Galaxy Adrift: The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. A Galaxy with Tendrils: This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The ...

"The LMC is a survivor." In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ...