barred spiral galaxy

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including astronomer Alexander de la Vega of the University of California, Riverside, has discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way that has been observed to date.

The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy: Officially “NGC-1365,″ this is a classic, gorgeous “barred” galaxy — a spiral with a central bar of stars that links two prominent, curving arms.

We live in a barred spiral galaxy, or one that swirls around with waving arms and has a bar-shaped structure in the middle composed largely of stars.

It is also a barred spiral galaxy, located in the Perseus constellation, and contains 10 times as many stars as our own galaxy.

As a result, its classification was changed from unbarred spiral galaxy to barred spiral galaxy.