Elliptical Galaxies
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies…
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's…
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 with color key, scale bar, and compass shows a 3,000-light-year-long…
This video plots the location of Hubble Space Telescope observations of novae – exploding stars – in the giant elliptical…
In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black…
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years…
It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy —…
Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the…
NGC 3384, visible in this image, has many of the characteristic features of so-called elliptical galaxies. Such galaxies glow diffusely, are…
