Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

Its sole spiral arm long ago earned NGC 1961 the additional name Arp 184 and a place in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, a ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune ... It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt ...