Spiral Galaxies - United Kingdom News Beep

A top-down view of a spiral galaxy, showing its brightly-shining center, its broad spiral arms, and the faint halo around its disk, as well as distant galaxies and stars on a dark background. Large blue clouds of gas speckled with small stars and strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s disk. A couple of the background galaxies are large enough that their own swirling spiral arms are visible.

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Hubble Surveys Supernova-Rich Spiral – NASA Science

August 1, 2025

Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 1309…

A spiral galaxy with a disk made of several swirling arms. Patchy blue clouds of gas speckle the disk where stars are forming and lighting the gas around them. The core of the galaxy is large and shines brightly gold, while the spiral arms are a paler and faint reddish color. Neighboring galaxies – from small, elongated spots to larger swirling spirals – are visible across the black background.

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Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral – NASA

July 29, 2025

The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years away…