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NGC 4414 is a flocculent spiral galaxy, with short segments of spiral structure but without the dramatic well-defined spiral arms of a grand design spiral. The galaxy was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, as part of the HST's main mission to determine the distance to galaxies, and again in 1999 as part of the Hubble Heritage project .
NGC 2008 is a distant spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pictor. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 10,367 ± 11 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 153 ± 11 Mpc (~499 million ly). [1] NGC 2008 was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel in 1834. [2]
NGC 4656/57 is a highly warped edge-on [3] barred spiral galaxy located in the local universe 30 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. [4] This galaxy is sometimes called the Hockey Stick Galaxy or the Crowbar Galaxy. Its unusual shape is thought to be due to an interaction between NGC 4656, NGC 4631, and NGC ...
NGC 4651 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope Spiral galaxy NGC 4651. Credit: ESA / Hubble Space Telescope & NASA, D. Leonard NGC 4651 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Coma Berenices that can be seen with amateur telescopes, at a distance not well determined that ranges from 35 million light years [2] to 72 million light years. [3]
An example of a spiral galaxy (Pinwheel Galaxy). This category contains galaxies in the S (de Vaucouleurs for indeterminate) category or any galaxy where it is indeterminate whether the galaxy is SA, SB or SAB in its spiral nature. SA, S (Hubble) galaxies should be categorized under Category:Unbarred spiral galaxies
NGC 1512 is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 38 million light-years away from Earth [2] in the constellation Horologium.The galaxy displays a double ring structure, with a (nuclear) ring around the galactic nucleus and an (inner) further out in the main disk.
The morphological classification of NGC 6782 is (R 1 R′ 2)SB(r)a, indicating a barred spiral galaxy with a multiple ring system and tightly-wound spiral arms. [5] It is seen nearly face-on, [ 8 ] being inclined by an angle of 27.2° ± 0.2° to the line of sight from the Earth.