From Butterfly Nebula to Messier 61: 7 stunning images of galaxies shared by NASA
Pavan Naidu
The image of the bright spiral galaxy MCG-01-24-014 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope is located about 275 million light-years away from Earth.
This image is of the galaxy Messier 61 (M61), showcasing its bright core encircled by spiral arms and dark dust filaments.
The delicate, feathery nature of the spiral arms in the Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2775 galaxy makes the spiral pattern striking. The galaxy is located in the constellation of Cancer, 67 million light-years away.
The image shows the majority of spiral galaxies have many arcing spiral arms that appear to spin out from the galaxy's center.
The dark bands around the center of the galaxy NGC 6861 are dust lanes, which are caused by large clouds of dust that block the light from stars behind them.
This image represents NGC 3256 is a galaxy in the constellation Vela, about 100 million light-years away that was formed by the collision of two galaxies.
The bright clusters and nebulae in the night sky are often named after flowers or insects, such as the Butterfly Nebula.
The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured images of NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster.