The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, classified as a dE3 elliptical, is a Milky Way satellite positioned approximately 300,000 light-years distant and holds the distinction of being the first telescopically ...

Gaia's data has revolutionized our understanding of the Milky Way's history, providing a three-dimensional map of nearly 2 billion objects, revealing a more violent and dynamic past than previously ...

The latest wide-scale analysis of data from the Euclid Space Telescope has demonstrated just how big of an impact this European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft is set to have on science. Importantly, it ...

A view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3982, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical, ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a small dwarf galaxy called IC 3430 that’s located 45 million light-years away. This galaxy is classified as both a dwarf galaxy, because of its small ...

The majority of the thousands of galaxies we’ve discovered out in the universe fit into relatively well-defined categories: spiral galaxies like our Milky Way, elliptical galaxies which are long and ...

That's what most people will conclude when it comes to talking about galaxies, yet within this family of Goliaths, there are the big ones and there are the tiny ones. Among the smallest of galaxies ...

A Hubble Space Telescope image shows a dwarf galaxy, VCC128, at the center, and the enlargement at right shows a double nucleus that suggests the presence of a black hole. Astronomers have found ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A galaxy has been observed in its cosmic death-throes for the first time. New research shows that a bright dwarf galaxy in a cluster near the Milky Way is losing its gas, creating a ...

An image of a dwarf elliptical galaxy satellite of the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, a galaxy similar to the Milky Way's companion, the great Andromeda galaxy M31. This image shows the same exposure, but ...

"This work highlights Euclid’s remarkable ability to detect and characterize dwarf galaxies, enabling a comprehensive view of galaxy formation and evolution across diverse mass scales, distances, and ...