but they lack majestic spiral arms and contain more fuel for star formation than typical elliptical galaxies. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers revealed the galaxy's classification.

This image, showing an elliptical galaxy (left) and a spiral galaxy (right) includes near-infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope, and ultraviolet and visible light from the Hubble ...

Such long-period comets have very elongated elliptical orbits, and can have periods ... generally in the spiral arms of a galaxy. Neutron star—An extremely dense collapsed star consisting ...

The larger elliptical galaxy is pulling material from a smaller neighboring galaxy, distorting its spiral arms. In turn, the teased strands of interstellar material fuels new star formation in the ...