On January 15, NASA shared a fascinating photograph of the barred spiral galaxy of the cosmos, a spiral galaxy known for its bar-shaped central structure that is made up of countless stars. Taking its official Instagram manager, the space agency wrote, “At a distance of 67 million light-years away, NGC 613 is an impressive example of a barred spiral galaxy. It is easy to distinguish the galaxy as such because of its well-defined center bar and long arms, which spiral slightly around the core. ”
According to NASA, the galaxy NGC 613 was first discovered in 1798 by German-English astronomer William Herschel. The galaxy was observed by amateur astronomer Victor Buso while testing a new camera with a telescope in 2016. A curious point of light caught his eye that it originated in a supernova in the southern constellation of sculptor 67 million light-years away with two stellar nuclei that were emitted separately by a ray of dust. Observed later by NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers named NGC 613 as a barred galaxy because of its well-defined center bar and long arms that radiated out of the core.
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[Barred spiral galaxy NGC 613 was obtained with the FORS1 and FORS2 multi-mode instruments. Credit: ESO]
It evolves into an elliptical galaxy
“According to surveys, about two-thirds of spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way galaxy, contain a bar,” NASA said in a statement. The arms of the barred spiral galaxy influence the movements of stars, dust, and gas. Galaxy peanut-shaped bars drag the galactic material used to form stars into the nucleic disk, resulting in lightning. According to the school observatory, the barred spiral galaxy would evolve into an elliptical galaxy. Cosmos lovers were impressed by the unique structure of the spiral galaxy barred with an impressive ribbon of stars and gas. “There must be life in such a vast universe,” one wrote. “Do we know why some galaxies really have that shape?” Asked another. “There’s probably a galactic civil war somewhere,” the third joked.
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