Hubble telescope captures irregular spiral galaxy.
NASA has released an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of an irregular spiral galaxy called NGC 5486, located 110 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy has arms extending from its glowing center and is classified as both a spiral and an irregular galaxy. Some of the gas and debris in the arms of NGC 5486 come from a supernova that occurred in 2004. The Pinwheel Galaxy, a nearby spiral galaxy, is much larger than NGC 5468 and nearly twice as wide as our own Milky Galaxy, with prominent, well-defined arms that form a distinct spiral.