Gaze Into the Heart of a Grand Spiral Galaxy By Nancy_A
The “arms” of grand design spirals appear to wind around and into the galaxy’s nucleus.
A ‘Grand Design’ spiral galaxy is a type of spiral galaxy with prominent and well-defined spiral arms. The arms of this galaxy look as though they are winding around and spiraling out from the galaxy’s center, like a classic spiral galaxy. Other spiral galaxies might have multiple arms or be moremage Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Filippenko , and D. Sand ; Image Processing: G. Kober
Take a closer look at NGC 3631 and you can see bright star forming regions along the inner part of the spiral arms, and the new stars show up as a bright blue Lead image caption:
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