A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

This galaxy-in-the-making sits roughly 10 billion light-years away in the constellation Cetus. It stretches about 400,000 light-years across, making it about four times as wide as our Milky Way.

For the first time, astronomers have found direct evidence of a phenomenon long thought to play an important role in the formation of giant galaxies: the ongoing disruption of a small galaxy as it ...

Hubble Sees 'Comet Galaxy' Being Ripped Apart By Galaxy Cluster. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 03 / 070302111140.htm ...

This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the trailing arms of NGC 2276, a spiral galaxy 120 million light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus.

Images The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space-based telescopes, has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster’s gravitationa… ...