A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

Elliptical galaxy—A galaxy that appears round or elliptical ... Quasars look like stars on an ordinary photograph but have very different spectra. Red giant—A large, highly luminous and ...

Centaurus A is an elliptical galaxy located about 13 million light-years from Earth. This color composite image reveals the lobes and jets emanating from the active galaxy’s central black hole.

This image, showing an elliptical galaxy (left) and a spiral galaxy (right) includes near-infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope, and ultraviolet and visible light from the Hubble ...

Round-ish with a bonus This week’s first large-scope object is elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, which lies in the sky’s largest constellation, Hydra the Water Snake. It shines at magnitude 10.8 and ...

Spiral galaxies have a thin, pancake-shaped disk, with a spherical bulge at the center. Within the disk, the brightest stars trace out the characteristic spiral pattern. Elliptical galaxies are ...