Hubble has captured UGC 8091, a festive bundle of lights. Located about seven million light-years away in the Virgo constellation, it’s also known as GR 8.

Those that lack a defined shape - known as 'irregular' dwarf galaxies - are considered similar to the earliest galaxies that populated the Universe. Thus, studying them offers a glimpse into ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

Astronomy, always seeking the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, has taken a significant new step with the discovery of three ...

Galaxy clusters are some of the ... ongoing star formation—and also hosts some irregular galaxies. A plethora of rarer, low-luminosity dwarf galaxies have been found in the cluster, including ...

The starburst galaxy NGC 1569 glows brilliantly, illuminated by the light of millions of newly formed young stars. This image of LH63, cloaked in red, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and ...