Spiral galaxy

This handout image obtained on May 23, 2024 courtesy of NASA/ESA/CSA shows space telescope Euclid's new view of Messier 78 (the central and brightest region), a vibrant nursery of star formation enveloped in a shroud of interstellar dust, from a series of new images taken by space telescope Euclid

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through time and huge amounts of dust to capture a new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing the spinning ring of color in unprecedented clarity, NASA and the European Space Agency said on Aug. 2.

Going further down the spiral…

Galaxies collide with each other on a pretty regular basis. Our own Milky Way, for instance, has gobbled up dozens of smaller galaxies in the past, and Andromeda is currently hurtling towards us at 109 km (68 mi) per second.

US Space Agency NASA published a photo of spiral galaxy NGC 5714 in the Volovar constellation. It is about 130 million light-years from our planet.

The image of NGC 5714 is made with the Hubble Space Telescope with the ACS camera.

By combining the power of a “natural lens” in space with the capability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.