# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CXHqttrJzB_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11733134-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-12-05T23:35:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

🌀 And we’re spiraling!

Our NASAHubble Space Telescope captured this image of a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo, roughly 120 million light-years from Earth. This richly detailed image was snapped by the Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, capturing a wide range of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths. 

This galaxy could be described as a “weakly-barred spiral galaxy,” which means the spiral arms of the galaxy radiate from a central bar of gas and stars. Bars occur in roughly half of spiral galaxies, including our own galaxy, the Milky Way. 


Credit: NASA/Hubble & EuropeanSpaceAgency, A. Riess et al.

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