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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new detailed portraits of 19 spiral galaxies filled with millions of stars and glowing gas and dust.
NGC 1365, also known as the Fornax Propeller Galaxy [2] or the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, [3] is a double-barred spiral galaxy about 56 million light-years away [4] in the constellation Fornax. It was discovered on 2 September 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop .
The spiral arms of the Milky Way stretch about 100,000 light-years, and the sun (and our solar system) reside about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the galaxy.
Dreyer assigned it the identifiers 2903 and 2905 in his New General Catalogue; NGC 2905 now designates a luminous knot in the northeastern spiral arm. [ 11 ] This field galaxy [ 12 ] is located about 30 [ 3 ] million light-years away from the Milky Way , and is a member of the Virgo Supercluster . [ 4 ]
NGC 5907 on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen α, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images; Ghost of a Dwarf Galaxy (Fossils of the Hierarchical Formation of the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 5907) Astronomy Picture of the Day: NGC 5907 (2008 June 19 ) Fossils of the Hierarchical Formation of the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC5907 (arXiv ...
In one picture, Euclid captured a group shot of 1,000 galaxies in a cluster 240 million light-years away, against a backdrop of more than 100,000 galaxies billions of light-years away. A light ...
NGC 1232 is a face-on spiral galaxy. It can be technically considered a grand-design galaxy and is considered a prototype for multi-arm spiral galaxies. [7] Its galactic bulge is small. While NGC 1232 is classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy, the bulge shows hints of a galactic bar. [7]
In spiral galaxies the central bulge typically co-rotates with the disk but the bulge in the galaxy NGC 7331 is rotating in the opposite direction to the rest of the disk. [7] In both visible light and infrared photos of the NGC 7331, the core of the galaxy appears to be slightly off-center, with one side of the disk appearing to extend further ...