Caption Artistic representation of the spiral barred galaxy ceers-2112, observed in the early universe. The Earth is reflected on an illusive bubble surrounding the galaxy, recalling the ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told reporters on Monday (Jan. 13) at the 245th meeting of the American ...

The new image, which was released Jan. 16 by the European Space Agency (ESA), is made up of approximately 600 different fields of view and shows the spiral galaxy "almost edge-on," or tilted 77 ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

The unobstructed skies that gave Big Sky, Montana its name made for an appropriate setting for the release of two postage stamps depicting vistas visible to the James Webb Space Telescope.

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the Sun -- which is pretty big -- plus young ...

It’s the closest large galaxy to our own Milky Way. A spiral galaxy—just like the Milky Way—it’s around 2.5 million light-years from us, so each time you look at it you’re seeing how it ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy —at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

The Spiral Galaxy Priority Mail stamp features NGC 628 ... “10.10,” is displayed horizontally along the bottom left edge. Designed by USPS art director Greg Breeding, the stamp incorporates ...

“The James Webb Space Telescope transforms science into art as it continues to capture ... I am excited that not only my favorite image, the spiral galaxy NGC 628, is featured this year, but ...

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post offices nationwide. The vast, unobstructed skies that gave Big Sky ...