It's what is known as a lenticular galaxy – one that's somewhere between a spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, and an elliptical galaxy, just sort of a fuzzy blob with no structure.

In this week's Astronomy magazine podcast, we'll help you observe elliptical galaxies M84 and M86, spiral galaxy M98, and the Eyes (NGC 4435 and NGC 4438) in your March night sky.

Beyond our solar system, symmetry rules. Except for the modern-art tapestries of diffuse nebulae, most objects — star clusters, elliptical galaxies, and stars — look more or less the same from ...

Astronomers have believed since the 1960s that a galaxy dubbed UGC 1382 was a relatively boring, small elliptical galaxy. Now, using a series of multi-wavelength surveys, astronomers have ...

This reclassified the Sombrero from a "flat disk" galaxy to an elliptical galaxy with a flat disk inside of it.

A view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3982, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical ...

New clues to how giant elliptical galaxies move have been discovered by an international team of astronomers. Elliptical galaxies have long been considered as essentially being made up of old ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, the spiral galaxy has only one visible arm.

How far is Uranus from the sun? Uranus travels in an elliptical orbit around the sun once every 84 Earth years.

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a stunning new portrait of ice giant Uranus, featuring its frigid rings and 14 of 27 moons.

The majority of the thousands of galaxies we’ve discovered out in the universe fit into relatively well-defined categories: spiral galaxies like our Milky Way, elliptical galaxies which are long ...

Most big galaxies fit into one of two camps: pinwheel-shaped spiral galaxies and blobby elliptical galaxies. Spirals like the Milky Way are hip and happening places, with plenty of gas […] ...