Barred spiral galaxy

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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 13, 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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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 NGC 4535, a spiral galaxy located some 52.6 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / F. Belfiore / J. Lee / PHANGS-HST Team.

November 17, 2025

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new image of the barred spiral galaxy…

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This Hubble image shows NGC 6951, a barred spiral galaxy some 70 million light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Two filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / L.C. Ho / G. Brammer / A. Filippenko / C. Kilpatrick.

October 6, 2025

NASA has released a beautiful close-up shot of NGC 6951, a barred spiral galaxy captured by the NASA/ESA…

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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…

Webb Peers into Brilliant Heart of Messier 77

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures New Image of NGC 6951

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