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The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is located roughly 40 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lupus. NGC 5643 is referred to as a grand design spiral, which describes galaxies with ...
The grand design spiral galaxy is the most magnificently structured sort of galaxy, with prominent, well-formed and visible spiral arms curving away from a bright, well-defined galactic center ...
M51 is a grand-design spiral galaxy about 25 million light-years away from Earth and boasts very well-developed arms.
The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 has just been released. This beautiful galaxy is tilted at an oblique angle on to our line of sight, giving a "birds-eye ...
Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped.
Both spiral galaxies are newly discovered and are grand design spiral galaxies, a type of spiral galaxy with very well-defined arms.
The galaxy, known as NGC 4254 or Messier 99, is an example of a grand design spiral galaxy, which has prominent, well-defined spiral arms that wrap tightly around the galaxy's center.
"It's called a grand design spiral galaxy because of its distinctive pinwheel shape with prominent arms," the European Southern Observatory said.
The European Space Agency (ESA), which manages JWST with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, published the image on Tuesday. The Whirlpool Galaxy is a “grand-design” spiral galaxy.
The Grand Design Spiral Galaxy, also known as NGC 4321, is part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, located 56 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.
"Grand design" spiral galaxy shows the power of JWST's sharp new infrared observations.
A "grand design" spiral galaxy called NGC 5643 has prominent and well-defined spiral arms, circling an incredibly bright, active core in a recent Hubble Space Telescope image.