Spiral Galaxies

Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral - NASA Science

July 24, 2026

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a spiral galaxy struggling against titanic forces that…

A large spiral galaxy. It is seen tilted at an angle, so that it is foreshortened and appears very wide. Its tightly-wound, blue spiral arms swirl out from its glowing center, spreading apart at the tips. They are followed by strands and clumps of dark red dust and spotted with pink dots where stars are forming in clouds of gas. The galaxy is surrounded by a slight glow and lies on a dark background.

June 3, 2026

The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on May 29, 2026, is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds…

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Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster

May 29, 2026

The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of…

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A large, long portion of one of the spiral arms in galaxy M51. Red-orange, clumpy filaments of gas and dust that stretch in a chain from left to right comprise the arm. Shining cyan bubbles light up parts of the gas clouds from within, and gaps expose bright star clusters in these bubbles as glowing white dots. The whole image is dotted with small stars. A faint blue glow around the arm colors the otherwise dark background.

May 22, 2026

This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, shows a section of one of the spiral arms of…

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$A spiral galaxy shown in mid-infrared light. The image is dominated by an extremely bright glow from the galaxy’s nucleus. Six large and two smaller rays of light emit from the center, which are diffraction spikes created by the telescope’s optics. The galaxy’s spiral arms are visible by two lines of glowing orange bubbles which whirl out into the disc. Swirling blue clouds of dust make up the rest of the galaxy.$

May 18, 2026

The heart of galaxy M77 shines brightly in this May 7, 2026, image from NASA’s James Webb Space…

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May 2, 2026

In this new picture from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a spiral galaxy glittering with star clusters is the…

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April 13, 2026

A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with…

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NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova

February 23, 2026

Forty million years ago, a star in a nearby galaxy exploded, spewing material across space and generating a…

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A nearly edge-on spiral galaxy. Its disk holds pink light from star-forming nebulae and blue light from clusters of hot stars. Thick dark clouds of dust block the strong white light from galaxy’s center. A faint, glowing halo of gas surrounds the disk, fading into the black background of space. A bluish plume of gas also extends from the galaxy’s core extending toward the lower-right corner of the image.

January 3, 2026

A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away in the…

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December 20, 2025

A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away…

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A spiral galaxy, seen partly from the side, with a messy, turbulent appearance. Its disc is made of multiple patchy arms that contain numerous sparkling blue and glowing red regions — star clusters and star-forming nebulae. Thick clumps of dark reddish dust swirl through the disc. The glow of the disc extends out into the dark background, where both distant and nearby stars can be seen.

December 5, 2025

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC 1792. Located…

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A close-in view of a spiral galaxy that faces the viewer. Brightly lit spiral arms swing outward through the galaxy’s disk, starting from an elliptical region in its center. Thick strands of dark reddish dust spread across the disk, primarily along the spiral arms. The arms also contain many glowing, pink-red spots where stars form and clumps of bright-blue star clusters. Beyond its spiral arms, the galaxy is a bit fainter and speckled with blue stars.

November 21, 2025

Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million…

Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral – NASA Science

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