NASA shared a stunning photograph of a 'dwarf galaxy' that is considered to be irregular because of its shape. Since the space agency posted this picture, it caught the attention of many.

This delicate blue group of stars -- actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 -- sits some 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Astronomers from the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have unveiled breathtaking images of five galaxies in our ...

The new images show these iconic galaxies in great detail, immortalizing their shape, colors and distribution of stars up to great distances from the center. Two of them, the irregular galaxy NGC ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three objects or events you can see in the sky.

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

Galaxies are classified into elliptical, lenticular, and spiral (or barred spiral) galaxies. Galaxies with irregular shapes ...

How it formed remains a cosmic mystery. Under the standard Hubble sequence method of classification, galaxies typically fall ...