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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb

By |2024-11-13T08:09:09-05:00November 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral galaxy about 200,000 light-years in diameter. That's twice the size of our own barred spiral Milky Way. This sharp image from the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals stunning details [...]

M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center

By |2024-10-09T09:09:09-04:00October 9th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M106? A swirling disk of stars and gas, M106's appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and red dust lanes near the nucleus, as shown in the featured image taken from the Kuwaiti desert. The core of M106 glows brightly in radio [...]

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