It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.

Hubble's new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll. Messier 104 was discovered back in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain—and has since been the ...

And the image below shows galaxy Arp 184 (also known as NGC 1961), which is a type called a peculiar spiral galaxy. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy ...

As new images of Jupiter and a galactic survey spring forth from NASA’s new observatory, ... It is full of galaxies — 30,000 of them, according to Dr. Finkelstein — in all shapes, ...

The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile planet that is in the midst of becoming a hot ...

The ancient elliptical galaxy where astronomers discovered the radio waves is about 2 billion light-years from Earth and is about 11.3 billion years old, according to the paper.

There are also elliptical galaxies, which are large and spherical rather than flat, similar to a rugby ball. The latter don’t produce new stars but are dominated by stars formed more than 10 ...

It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.