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.

An elliptical galaxy (left) ... The Mars Express just got up close and personal with Phobos The Mars Express just got up close and personal with Phobos. By Laura Baisas.

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.

The idea is that these elliptical galaxies arrive at their final shape through collisions across the ages of the ... Famous Dark Streaks On Mars May Not Be What We Were Hoping For. 23 hours ago. 19.

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, ...

At left, in optical light, UGC 1382 (the "Frankenstein" galaxy) appears to be a simple elliptical galaxy. But spiral arms emerged when astronomers incorporated ultraviolet and deep optical data ...

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 ...

The unusual galaxy NGC 4694 has traits unique to the two main galaxy types, spiral and elliptical. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker) What it is: The galaxy NGC 4694, a member of 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, ...