This image of the spiral galaxy M51 has been named the top James Webb Space Telescope image of 2023 by the public. A World Cup-style knockout poll on the Webb Telescope Twitter feed produced the ...

Andromeda Galaxy—The nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky ... be powered by a supermassive black hole. Quasars look like stars on an ordinary photograph but have very different spectra.

This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG ... and is categorized as a Type-2 Seyfert galaxy. Seyfert galaxies, along with quasars, host one of the most common subclasses ...

Why it's so special: The spiral galaxy IC 3225 looks like it's going somewhere. At first glance, it may seem like any other large spiral galaxy, such as our Milky Way, with its bright, glowing ...

The first-ever sighting of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical oddity. Quasars — blazingly bright galactic cores — owe their ...

de Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors in a new image from the ...