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Hubble telescope captures spectacular image of spiral galaxy

Hubble telescope captures spectacular image of spiral galaxy

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured this spectacular image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1961 featuring glittering blue regions of young, bright stars dotting the landscape of the galaxy’s dusty spiral arms. NGC 1961 is located about 180 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy and as an […]

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Hubble space telescope captures two star-forming spiral galaxies

Hubble space telescope captures two star-forming spiral galaxies

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of two spiral galaxies, which are collectively known as Arp 303. Individually, they are called IC 563 (bottom) and IC 564 (top) are more than 275 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sextans. The image used data from two separate Hubble observations of Arp 303. […]

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