Spiral nebula

This Is Beauty

Beautiful Galaxy

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 is famous for its ‘Grand Design’ spiral structure and unique spiral core. Only Galaxies with the barred structure have these ‘Grand Design’ inner disks. Credit: NASA/Harvard/Hubble/NED/ESA

IRAS 13224−3809 has a relatively small supermassive black hole that’s powering outflows reminiscent of its massive quasar cousins.

8/8/14: Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744 -- courtesy of NASA APOD App http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140808.html

The magnificent spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this NASA Spitzer Space Telescope image. Located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (which also includes the Big Dipper).

The appropriately named "Phantom Galaxy" glows eerily in a new image by Judy Schmidt based on James Webb Space Telescope data collected nearly a million miles away from our planet using the observatory's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI).

JWST Just Released A New Image of a Pair of Colliding Galaxies; NGC 2207 and IC 2163

Spiral galaxy NGC 1300

Bodes Galaxy, or Messier 81 (M81) Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

The space agency explore the Universe in X-rays to celebrate the International Year of Light.