A rosy barred spiral galaxy image
Another barred spiral galaxy, NGC 5068 has a lot of interstellar dust and “thousands of star-forming regions,” according to NASA. It’s located in the Virgo constellation about 20 million light-years away from Earth, and because the galaxy has a fairly low surface brightness, it’s hard to see with the naked eye.

The pinkish-red regions line the galaxy’s spiral arms and signal ionized hydrogen gas, which are home to young star clusters, the agency said. The James Webb Space Telescope released an infrared image of NGC 5068 this summer, NASA noted, in an effort to study “star formation in gaseous regions of nearby galaxies.”

Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Chandar (University of Toledo), and J. Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

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