Most galaxies fall into these basic types. However, NGC 4694 has properties of both types, complicating its classification, Hubble Space Telescope team members explained in a description of the image.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...
Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...