# @hubbleesa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNQe4T9tlI8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35580715-hubbleesa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-12T14:00:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hubble Space Telescope (@hubbleesa) — https://gondola.cc/hubbleesa

## Caption

This is the picturesque spiral galaxy Messier 61 (also known as NGC 4303), which is 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It is a starburst galaxy, meaning that it experiences an incredibly high rate of star formation 🌟 hungrily using up its reservoir of gas in a short period of time – astronomically speaking!

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s image was taken for PHANGS, a project that brings together observations from space- and ground-based telescopes of many galaxies to help researchers study all phases of the star formation cycle. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s view of Messier 61 was created from 2003 and 2004 data, captured from the now-decommissioned High Resolution Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys.

📷 nasa , europeanspaceagency , canadianspaceagency , STScI, J. Lee (STScI), T. Williams (Oxford), PHANGS Team
📷 ESA/ hubbleesa & NASA
Acknowledgement: Det58

#ESA #Webb

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