... galaxy disrupted by a recent collision with a smaller companion spiralgalaxy ... in the host galaxy or belonged to the spiralgalaxy that fell into the core, or if ... the dust remnant of a smaller spiralgalaxy that merged with the large elliptical ...
... The picture contains over 300 galaxies having spiral, elliptical and irregular shapes. ... This is a comparison view of a spiralgalaxy in the Hubble Deep Field -- Hubble Space Telescope's view of the faintest galaxies ...
... rendering the image of the star below the large spiralgalaxy approximately white ... The spiralgalaxy is displayed in such a way that the internal structure is visible. ...
... signal was embedded in a much larger and rapidly rotating disk of hydrogen gas, characteristic of a robust spiralgalaxy ... said Cepheus 1 is one of the dozen largest nearby spiralgalaxies, "and one of only two large Low Surface Brightness spirals ...
... In the northern deep field, when ISOCAM observations are superimposed on a Hubble picture of the same region, they pick out spiralgalaxies experiencing starbursts. ...
... Hubble images of NGC 1316 resolved faint star clusters typically found around spiral but not elliptical galaxies, evidence that NGC 1316 cannibalized a spiralgalaxy in the past. ...
... Another galaxy image from Hubble -- released during the meeting of the American Astronomical Society earlier this month -- shows a stunning 1,000- light-year-wide ring of vigorous star formation in the barred-spiralgalaxy NGC 4314 in Coma Berenices ...
... rings of Andromeda " The Andromeda galaxy, one of the closest companions of our own galaxy, has been hiding from the astronomers' eyes one of its secrets: while always considered a typical spiralgalaxy, ISO sees it now as a spectacular ringed galaxy ...
... Highlights of its 26,000 observations include images and spectra of the star-forming regions in Orion, a survey of interstellar dust clouds, and studies of the Small Magellanic Cloud and M33, the large spiralgalaxy in Triangulum. ...
... several planets orbiting what turns out to be an average yellow star among hundreds of billions of other suns in what turns out to be an average spiralgalaxy in a Universe with hundreds of billions of such star islands scattered throughout the vastness ...