A quasar is an exceptionally bright and uncommon supermassive black hole found at the core of a galaxy. NASA researchers have ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light ...

This view of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, from the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument, is studded by the galaxy’s massive population of stars, most dense along its bright ...

A barred spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars. Bars are found in about half of all spiral galaxies. Bars generally affect both the motions of stars ...

At a redshift of 3.09, ADF22.A1 is a giant barred spiral galaxy residing in a proto-cluster known as SSA22. Previous observations have found that it is a dusty star-forming galaxy (DSFG ...

The galaxy, called NGC 1672, is a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. Billions of stars fueled by hydrogen gas in the swirling arms glow ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three objects or events you can see in the sky.

Montage of JWST images showing six example barred galaxies ... in the top left of each figure show the lookback time of each galaxy, ranging from 8.4 to 11 billion years ago (Gyr), when the ...

NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy, located approximately 60 million light-years away within the ... [+] Sculptor constellation in the southern hemisphere. The Knife Edge Galaxy, NGC 5907 ...