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 Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunningly detailed view of the weakly barred spiral galaxy NGC 3344, which is located some 20 million light-years away in the direction of the "Lion Cub" ...

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 ...

A group of galaxies is plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an enormous tail of superheated gas. Astronomers have confirmed this is the longest known tail behind a galaxy group and ...

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