A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus.

Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

Many galaxies possess two prominent spiral arms, some have more, while others display a many-armed flocculent appearance ... and the mechanisms responsible for it vary from galaxy to galaxy, a ...

Young stellar groupings and clusters have hierarchical patterns ranging from flocculent spiral arms and star complexes on the ... the observation that the summed IMFs from many clusters in a galaxy ...

We use a method for deriving a set of parameters of spiral structure, such as the width of the spiral arms, their fraction to the total galaxy luminosity ... multi-armed, and flocculent. We conclude ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

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

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral galaxy ...