Never-before-seen details of the Milky Way's spiral arms have been revealed through chemical mapping. This pioneering technique, called chemical cartography, has unveiled new regions of our galaxy's ...

Webb and Chandra reveal two spiral galaxies after an encounter, exposing heated gas, newborn stars and distorted arms, while ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a collection of stars famously arranged in a series of spiral arms wrapped around a black hole center. But galaxies aren't the only spiral structures in the universe; ...

Hubble reveals a chaotic spiral galaxy whose close encounter with a neighbor has ignited a spectacular burst of star birth.

New supercomputer simulations show how spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way get, and keep, their skinny, star-studded arms. Spiral galaxies are quite common in the universe. We live in one and 70 ...

Hubble unveils the “Lost Galaxy” as a vibrant spiral alive with newborn stars and glowing clouds of cosmic energy.

Spiral galaxies are some of the most beautiful and photogenic residents of the universe. Our own Milky Way is a spiral. Our solar system and Earth reside somewhere near one of its filamentous arms.

When you hear the phrase “spiral arms,” you probably think of galaxies. Lots of galaxies have bright arcs of stars that spiral away from their center, including our Milky Way. But not all galaxies ...

M51 is a grand-design spiral galaxy about 25 million light-years away from Earth and boasts very well-developed arms. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 29, 2023 4:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has four arms instead of two, according to just published results of a 12-year study by scientists in the U.K. Unlike our view of other galaxies, it's challenging to figure out ...

Could the spiral arms in galaxies be an accident of differently rotating matter "lining up", albeit reinforced by self-gravity, rather than spirals being a fundamentally different animal to ...

New supercomputer simulations show how spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way get, and keep, their skinny, star-studded arms. Spiral galaxies are quite common in the universe. We live in one and 70 ...