Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.

The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile planet that is in the midst of becoming a hot ...

And the image below shows galaxy Arp 184 (also known as NGC 1961), which is a type called a peculiar spiral galaxy. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy ...

As new images of Jupiter and a galactic survey spring forth from NASA’s new observatory, ... It is full of galaxies — 30,000 of them, according to Dr. Finkelstein — in all shapes, ...

Hubble's new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll. Messier 104 was discovered back in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain—and has since been the ...

There are also elliptical galaxies, which are large and spherical rather than flat, similar to a rugby ball. The latter don’t produce new stars but are dominated by stars formed more than 10 ...

The unusual galaxy NGC 4694 has traits unique to the two main galaxy types, spiral and elliptical. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker) What it is: The galaxy NGC 4694, a member of the ...