The Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled the intriguing galaxy NGC 2775, characterized by a mind-bending shape that challenges astronomers’ understanding of galaxy formation and classification. NGC ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has an elegant spiral shape with long arms filled with stars, but exactly how it took this form has long puzzled scientists. New observations of another galaxy are shedding light ...

Astronomers have long known that the shape of a galaxy can tell us about its past, but for the first time scientists have confirmed another important aspect of galactic shape. It can also tell us how ...

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A view of a "mystery galaxy shape" has been captured by a northern lights chaser in Iceland. An image of the unusual display was shared four days ago in a Reddit post by Shang Yang (user ...

For the first time astronomers have measured how a galaxy’s spin affects its shape. It sounds simple, but measuring a galaxy’s true 3D shape is a tricky problem that astronomers first tried to solve ...

The invisible halo of dark matter that surrounds the Galaxy shapes how stars move, how dwarf galaxies orbit, and how mergers unfold. For a long time, theorists treated dark matter as “collisionless,” ...