If you can see those features, you might agree that M76 does a pretty good impersonation of a
barred spiral galaxy. In reality, the tenuous appendages are filaments of gas in the Little Dumbbell's halo.
Messier 61 is a large
barred spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster that is undergoing a high rate of star-birth activity.
The Milky Way Galaxy is a
barred spiral galaxy: a disk-shaped collection of dust, gas and billions of stars, 100,000 light-years in diameter.
Washington, January 11 ( ANI ): A team of astronomers has crowned the spectacular
barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 the largest-known spiral, based on archival data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission.
Barred spiral galaxy NGC 7674 is the brighter standout and ellipitcal galaxy NGC 7675 is its fainter, smaller companion a bit more than 2' to the east.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Astronomers measured the mass of the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 1097 -- a
barred spiral galaxy located approximately 45 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Fornax.
Astronomers believe that NGC 2683 is a
barred spiral galaxy, even though they cannot be seen that directly.
Our next goal is the face-on,
barred spiral galaxy NGC 7741.