Yale astronomers have announced the discovery of a galaxy with nine concentric rings—the most rings ever seen in a single ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

a UW postdoctoral researcher in astronomy and lead author of the accompanying paper. “It’s fascinating to see the detailed structures of an external spiral galaxy mapped over such a large ...

Galaxies with such powerful jets are typically old, elliptical, and featureless, having lost all their youthful spiral structure in messy mergers with other galaxies. Yet, when astronomer Olivia ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

The unusual quasar takes its place amid an active debate in the astronomy ... from two or more galaxies mashes together, and heated gas is funneled toward merged black holes. Spiral galaxy quasars ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...

Unusual detection bolsters evidence that the mysterious signals can be caused by different astrophysical events.

Spiral galaxy quasars like J0742+2704 ... which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, conducts Hubble science operations for NASA.