Two of them, the irregular galaxy NGC 3109 and the irregular dwarf Sextant A , are located on the edge of the so-called Local Group, which also includes our galaxy, the Milky Way, and are about 4 ...

Using data from the Euclid Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a stunning 2,674 dwarf galaxies, the study of which could help better understand cosmic evolution.

Image of the irregular galaxy NGC 3109, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope) (Image credit ...

Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way some 160,000 light-years away. New research points to it containing a supermassive black hole at its center. Credit: Marco Lorenzi ...

Galaxies are broadly divided into three groups. You have the spirals like the Milky Way and Andromeda, the irregular galaxies, and the elliptical galaxies. This latter group tends to have the most ...

Image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253, located at a distance of about 11 million light years from us, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian telescope managed by the Italian ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238. ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Annibali This other recent Hubble image also shows a dwarf galaxy, one called NGC ...

Two more galaxies, the beautiful spiral galaxy known as Southern Pinwheel (also referred to as NGC 5236 or M 83) and the irregular galaxy NGC 5253, are located at distances of 15 and 11 million ...