Cygnus X-1, a monstrous black hole, lurks 6,000 light-years away, ready to devour anything that ventures too close. ((NASA/JPL-Caltech / NASA)) The agency released the "Galaxy of Horrors," an array of ...

NASA is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Chandra X-ray Observatory launch by sharing never-before-seen photos of the largest known spiral galaxy in the universe. The Chandra X-ray observatory ...

Hubble captured a breathtaking view of NGC 6000, a spiral galaxy where blue newborn stars shine beside golden, aging ones.

NASA’s Webb telescope returned an image of the so-called Sombrero galaxy, around 30 million light-years away. The galaxy was previously photographed by Webb’s predecessor, the Hubble telescope.

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Once considered to be the largest-known spiral galaxy, NGC 6872 was later dethroned by NGC 262, which measures 1.3 million light-years in diameter. The spiral galaxy's unusual size and appearance is ...

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