If you ever get out away from city lights and just stare up at the night sky, you might start noticing more than just the pinpricks of lights of individual stars. You may see smudges of light acros… ...

Elliptical galaxies lack the swirling arms of their more well-known siblings, spiral galaxies.Instead, they bear the rounded shape of an ellipse, a stretched-out circle.

Waukesha, Wis. – Elliptical galaxy M87 is a fascinating astronomical laboratory that sits some 50 million light-years from Earth. ... “See Saturn in prime time ...

These compact elliptical galaxies are fairly rare. Until 2013, only 30 or so had been found, and they were all huddling next to giant galaxies near the center of large clusters of galaxies.

Astronomers have pulled back curtains of space dust to find a star-spangled show: a massive pair of galaxies smashing into each other to form, eventually, an even bigger elliptical galaxy, one ...

Giant elliptical galaxies are not likely to be havens for technological life, argues new paper. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. Featured. Featured. Breaking News. White House Watch.

That a look at the photo up top, which shows galaxy NGC 474 in the foreground. It’s an elliptical galaxy, which should mean that it’s bereft of gas and essentially dormant.

Galaxy star birth regulated by black-hole fountain Date: August 6, 2015 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe's largest ...

Ferguson also mapped elliptical craters on Tethys, Saturn's fifth largest moon, and found that a similar size-frequency distribution of craters is unusual for objects orbiting the Sun, but ...

Rare, elliptical craters spotted on two of Saturn's moons reveal new clues about the satellites' age and formation, a new study shows. Using data from NASA's Cassini mission, researchers from the ...

An oddball elliptical galaxy is hiding an inner spiral, astronomers have found.The discovery goes against the norm of most big galaxies, which generally fall into one of two categories: spirals ...

About 72 percent of the galaxies we’ve studied are spiral, like ours, but there are two other types of galaxies out there that we’ve observed. Elliptical galaxies are, well, elliptical in shape.