A galaxy's building blocks—stars, gas and dust—emit light at different colors. Therefore, the more shades of color there are in an image of a galaxy, the more we can learn about its inner ...

The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, formally known as NGC 1365, is 56 million light years away, and it's one of a sample of galaxies that astronomers chose for some of Webb's earliest observations ...

A detailed, thousand-color image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). Regions of pink light are spread throughout this whole galactic ...