Few galaxies are really bright and oriented almost exactly edge-on to our line of sight. One of these is NGC 5907: the Splinter Galaxy.

An excellent example of this is NGC 520, a 13th-magnitude galaxy in Pisces with two tails and a heavy central dust lane. Only within the past few years has its “true” nature come to light.

Using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), Indian astronomers have performed wide and deep field observations of a polar ring galaxy known as NGC 4262. Results of the observational campaign ...

The irregular galaxy NGC 2814. The bright object on the top right of this image is actually a star in the Milky Way galaxy that is much closer to the viewer than the galaxy. NGC 2814 is located ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 5643 is located roughly 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf. NGC 5643 is a grand design spiral, which refers to the galaxy's symmetrical form ...

One of these edge-on marvels is NGC 5907 in Draco. It is an SA (s)c galaxy, sometimes called the Splinter Galaxy or the Knife Edge Galaxy. It lies a short distance away from M102 (NGC 5866), a ...

To investigate this phenomenon, a team led by National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomer Stéphanie Juneau studied the galaxy NGC 7582, located around 70 million light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have labeled the galaxy as irregular. NGC 7292 has earned this title because it lacks the broad arms of spiral galaxies and the elongated shape of elliptical galaxies. NGC 7292 also ...

Hubble has just dropped more galactic eye candy! From its vantage point in low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an intricate portrait of the NGC 3430 galaxy, a classic ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the vibrant core of the galaxy NGC 3125. Discovered by John Herschel in 1835, NGC 3125 is a great example of a starburst galaxy — a galaxy in ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured new images of distant galaxy NGC 4889, home to a supermassive black hole measuring 21 billion times the size of the Sun.

This spiral galaxy is named Messier 106, or NGC 4258, and despite its apparently tranquil appearance, it is the site of a hungry, hungry black hole.