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Adolescent Red Spiral Galaxies Found So far, there were two known types of galaxies (excluding the peculiar ones that form by accident): the blue spiral ones, like our own, and red elliptical ones, shaped like a football. Their color (although the shades and contrast may differ) is very important, since it gives a hint on the age of the stars in the gal... 25 November 2008 08:43 GMT VLT Reveals New Cosmic Interactions ESA's Very Large Telescope surprised what seems to be a group of three large galaxies engaged into gravitational interactions with each other. The system lies 106 million light years away, in the direction of the Piscis Austrinus constellation, and is formed of NGC 7173, NGC 7174 and NGC 7176. Two of the galaxie... 14 February 2008 10:42 GMT New Way of Describing How Galaxies Formed and Changed Over Time Recently, a group of astronomers developed a new method of describing galaxy features, which could provide scientists with new information on how exactly galaxies formed and changed over time in different parts of the known Universe.Dr. Xiaolei Zhang, of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., together with... 10 July 2007 08:16 GMT