An elliptical galaxy NGC 3640 situated just above its smaller galactic neighbor NGC 3641. ... Gaze at a cluster of glowing galaxies | Space photo of the day for May 2, 2025.

The elliptical galaxy at the center of this Einstein ring belongs to a galaxy cluster named SMACSJ0028.2-7537. It can be seen as the oval-shaped, featurless glow around the small bright core.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

A full-size photo of the Penguin and Egg galaxies. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) The smaller Egg, glowing brightly to the Penguin's left, is a densely packed elliptical galaxy that has not ...

Space photo of the week: Violent galaxies seen 'jousting' near the dawn of time; ... When they merge, they form chaotic elliptical galaxies, which astronomers predict is happening now to NGC 7727.

The Penguin (individually cataloged as NGC 2936) is a former spiral galaxy, deformed by the close passage of the elliptical Egg (NGC 2937) during their first pass.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, the spiral galaxy has only one visible arm.

Galaxy Arp 184, however, we are seeing from an angle, so it looks different. More than that, though, Arp 184 is skewed so that it isn’t perfectly spiral shaped.

There are also elliptical galaxies, which are large and spherical rather than flat, similar to a rugby ball. The latter don’t produce new stars but are dominated by stars formed more than 10 ...