NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of, NGC 474, an elliptical galaxy that's 2.5 times larger than our Milky Way.

Elliptical galaxies are, well, elliptical in shape. They can be fairly round, or much more oval depending on the galaxy. ... Mars is now alone in the western evening sky.

Its thousands of galaxies are like a swarm of bees, buzzing around a giant core of enormous elliptical galaxies ... of Taurus (the celestial Bull), while the fainter is the planet Mars. During April, ...

The Sombrero Galaxy, also called M104 or NGC 4594, is about 28 million light-years from our planet in the constellation Virgo. It is so named because the halo surrounding its disc is unusually ...

This annotated view of the surroundings of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5018 shows many of the galaxy's neighbors. ... See the crescent moon dance with Mars and the bright star Regulus this weekend.

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

When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it.. That glowing curve isn't the ...

If you ever get out away from city lights and just stare up at the night sky, you might start noticing more than just the pinpricks of lights of individual stars. You may see smudges of light acros… ...

Toft worked on the premise that these progenitor elliptical galaxies formed quickly in the universe before something shut off their star formation. Then, over the next 10 billion or so years, ...