Grand swirls NGC 1566, a beautiful galaxy<br /><br />This new Hubble image shows NGC 1566, a beautiful galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish). <br /><br />NGC 1566 is an intermediate spiral galaxy, meaning that while it does not have a well defined bar-shaped region of its centre - like barred spirals - it is not quite an unbarred spiral either.<br /><br />Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA<br />Acknowledgement: Flickr user Det58 <br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/76780020@N07 for more gloruse spcace pictures<br />Grand swirls, shown on <br />http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1422a<br />http://www.spacetelescope.org<br /><br />Music “Between Nothing and Everything” by Kai_Engel from Album Atlantida<br />http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel<br /><br />.
