An image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) shows a striking celestial sight: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, a gorgeous face-on galaxy that is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral ...

Pinwheel Galaxy. Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and host six detected supernovae. This image was captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

One of the most famous galaxies in the collection is the so-called "Southern Pinwheel" galaxy, also known as NGC 5236 or M83. It is located around 15 million light-years away. "We strive to ...

“You need a supernova in our galaxy, or a satellite galaxy right next door for that.” SN 2023ixf is in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), a particularly gorgeous galaxy very close to the handle of ...

Symmetrical spiral galaxies showcase the universe's natural beauty, revealing stunning artistry and intricate cosmic patterns ...

it is widely known as the Southern Pinwheel. Thanks to the scattered regions of red star formation along its spiral arms, it also carries the nickname the Thousand-Ruby Galaxy. M83 has a diameter ...

NGC 300 (also known as Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel galaxy) is a dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor, about six million light years away. It has an estimated size of about ...

Supernova 2011fe was discovered by the Palomar Transient Observatory just hours after it exploded in the Big Dipper. Studies by the Nearby Supernova Factory of its colors and spectrum as they ...

Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the telescope, this image of our nearest major galactic neighbor, M31, is the largest Hubble mosaic to date.