A frequent sign of the maturity of a spiral galaxy is the formation of a ribbon of stars and gas that slices across the nucleus, like the slash across a “no smoking” sign. In a landmark study of more ...

Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has important similarities and differences with modern galaxies. This improves our ...

A barred spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars. Bars are found in about half of all spiral galaxies. Bars generally affect both the motions of stars ...

A recent study published in Nature examines spectacular new data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that reveals the oldest and farthest spiral galaxy like our Milky Way ever discovered, ...

Artistic representation of the spiral barred galaxy ceers-2112, observed in the early universe. Earth is reflected on an illusive bubble surrounding the galaxy, recalling the connection between the ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation Cetus the Sea Monster. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a similar barred ...

A new Hubble Space Telescope image of barred spiral galaxy IC 486 reveals how its sweeping arms and central bar shape star formation and galactic growth. Located 380 million light-years away, IC 486 ...

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a picture-perfect galaxy, known somewhat unimaginatively as Mrk 1337. It is located 120 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo, ...

There is a way to see JWST’s latest images. On Twitter and Flickr there are a handful of astrophotographers processing and posting some stunning images of JWST’s very latest observations. The raw ...