The universe contains an estimated 100 billion galaxies, with a potentially infinite number. NGC 5907, also known as the Splinter or Knife Edge Galaxy, is an SA(s)c galaxy viewed nearly edge-on, ...
NGC 3718 is a distorted spiral galaxy about 65 million light-years away. NGC 3729, a nearby galaxy, likely distorted NGC 3718. Both NGC 3718 and NGC 3729 are barred spiral galaxies. Hickson Compact ...
The Universe is simply so vast that it can be difficult to maintain a sense of scale. Many galaxies we see through telescopes such as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the source of this beautiful ...
The peculiar galaxy NGC 3256 dominates this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This Milky Way-sized galaxy lies about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Vela, and ...