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Spiral Galaxy Images taken by Hubble Telescope


This is the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31. This is the neighbouring galaxy of Milky way galaxy (our own galaxy).
This is nearly 2 million light years away from earth.

This is a NGC 7640 i. e. barred spiral type galaxy. These are recognisable by their spiral arms, which fan out not from a circular core, but from an elongated bar cutting through the galaxy’s centre.
This is the part of Andromeda constellation.


This is the image of the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300.
 NGC 1300 is considered to be prototypical of barred spiral galaxies. Barred spirals differ from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not spiral all the way into the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the nucleus at its center.
This 60 million light years away from the earth and belong to the Eridanus Constellation.



This is spiral galaxy Messier 77 — a galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, some 45 million light-years away from us.
The streaks of red and blue in the image highlight pockets of star formation along the pinwheeling arms, with dark dust lanes stretching across the galaxy’s starry centre. The galaxy belongs to a class of galaxies known as Seyfert galaxies, which have highly ionised gas surrounding an intensely active centre.



This is ESO 510-G13 galaxy, a part of Hydra Constellation. This is 150 million light years away from us.
This is the image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars. The dust and spiral arms of normal spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, appear flat when viewed edge-on.



The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217 was photographed on 13 June and 8 July 2009.  The galaxy lies up to 90 million light-years away in the north circumpolar constellation Ursa Minor.



 The Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104). The galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy. As seen from Earth, the galaxy is tilted nearly edge-on. We view it from just six degrees north of its equatorial plane. This brilliant galaxy was named the Sombrero because of its resemblance to the broad rim and high-topped Mexican hat.

At a relatively bright, M104 is just beyond the limit of naked-eye visibility and is easily seen through small telescopes. The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the rich Virgo cluster of galaxies and is one of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns. The galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and is located 30 million light-years from Earth.

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