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$This image of Messier 77 from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) highlights its swirling spiral arms, the dust in its disk and its piercingly bright core like never before. The bright orange lines appearing to radiate out from the galaxy’s center are not actually a feature of the galaxy: they are a type of distortion that arises from the optical design of the telescope. Called diffraction spikes, they are created because the intense light from the unresolved AGN is bent (diffracted) very slightly at the edges of Webb’s hexagonal mirror panels and around one of the struts that hold up its secondary mirror. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / A. Leroy.$

May 12, 2026

New images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope capture the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 as a…

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This Hubble image shows IC 486, a barred spiral galaxy some 380 million light-years away in the constellation of Gemini. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / M.J. Koss / A.J. Barth.

April 4, 2026

The Hubble team has released a beautiful close-up shot of the barred spiral galaxy IC 486. This Hubble…

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January 19, 2026

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COSMOS-74706: an unsharp mask overlaid onto the F200W, F277W, and F356W filter composition; the white lines are logarithmic spirals fitted to points along the arm structures and a line segment fitted to the approximately North to South aligned bar structure. Image credit: Daniel Ivanov.

January 13, 2026

Using the high resolution images from the NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera) instrument onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope,…

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This Euclid image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 646 and the smaller, faint and round galaxy NGC 646b. Image credit: ESA / Euclid /Euclid Consortium / NASA / M. Schirmer, MPIA / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

December 24, 2025

This new image from ESA’s Euclid space telescope shows two large galaxies: NGC 646 and NGC 646b. They…

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An artist’s impression of the flaring, windy supermassive black hole in NGC 3783. Image credit: ESA / ATG Europe.

December 9, 2025

Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a JAXA-led mission with ESA and NASA…

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This Hubble image shows NGC 6000, a barred spiral galaxy some 102 million light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Filippenko / M.H. Özsaraç.

September 29, 2025

The Hubble team has released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of half of…

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