211-NASA – Spiral Galaxy
May 12
JAMES YWEBB SPACE TELESCOPE CAPTURES BARRED SPIRAL GALAXY NGC 1559.
A spiral galaxy seen directly from the side, such that its disc looks like a narrow diagonal band across the image. A band of dark dust covers the disc in the centre most of the way out to the ends, and the disc glows around that. In the centre a whitish circle of light bulges out above and below the disc. The tips of the disc are a bit bent. The background is black and mostly empty.