Elliptical Galaxies
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Hubble Examines an Active Galaxy Near the Lion’s Heart
It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy —…
X-ray Satellite XMM-Newton Sees ‘Space Clover’ in a New Light
Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the…
Hubble Views a Galaxy Settling into Old Age
NGC 3384, visible in this image, has many of the characteristic features of so-called elliptical galaxies. Such galaxies glow diffusely, are…
Hubble Views a Sphere of Stars
This huge ball of stars – around 100 billion in total – is an elliptical galaxy located some 55 million…
Hubble Gazes at a Hazy Galaxy
This moody image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy glory by the NASA/ESA Hubble…
Hubble Spots an Energetic Galaxy
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals NGC 547, an elliptical galaxy that sits about 250 million light-years away from…