{"id":363107,"date":"2026-02-06T02:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=454b8e661c6c3bb6f9501a1fc53a7c57"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:39:36","slug":"hubble-spots-lens-shaped-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=363107","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Spots Lens-Shaped Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1946\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?w=1946\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A disk-shaped galaxy. It glows brightly at the center and shines a faint white light all around it. The disk is made up of tightly-packed rings of dust, some darker and some lighter. Wide, long lanes of dark reddish dust cross the galaxy in front of its edge, blocking out some of its light; the long strands twist and break apart at each side. A couple of nearby stars and distant galaxies are also visible on the black background.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg 3800w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=285,300 285w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=768,808 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=973,1024 973w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=1459,1536 1459w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=1946,2048 1946w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=380,400 380w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=570,600 570w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=855,900 855w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=1140,1200 1140w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hubble-ngc7722-potm2601b.jpg?resize=1900,2000 1900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1946px) 100vw, 1946px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">This NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away, features concentric rings of dust and gas that appear to swirl around its bright nucleus.<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">ESA\/Hubble &amp; NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), Dark Energy Survey\/DOE\/FNAL\/DECam\/CTIO\/NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA; Acknowledgment: Mehmet Y\u00fcksek<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This new Hubble image, released on Jan. 30, 2026, is the sharpest taken of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation&nbsp;Pegasus. A lenticular, meaning \u201clens-shaped,\u201d galaxy is a type whose classification sits between more familiar&nbsp;spiral galaxies&nbsp;and&nbsp;elliptical galaxies. It is also less common than spirals and ellipticals \u2014 partly because these galaxies have a somewhat ambiguous appearance, making it hard to determine if it is a spiral, an elliptical, or something in between.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-sees-galaxy-with-dark-rings-in-new-light\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about this observation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: &nbsp;ESA\/Hubble &amp; NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), Dark Energy Survey\/DOE\/FNAL\/DECam\/CTIO\/NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA; Acknowledgment: Mehmet Y\u00fcksek<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new Hubble image, released on Jan. 30, 2026, is the sharpest taken of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation\u00a0Pegasus. A lenticular, meaning \u201clens-shaped,\u201d galaxy is a type whose classification sits between more familiar\u00a0spiral galaxies\u00a0and\u00a0elliptical galaxies. It is also less common than spirals and ellipticals \u2014 partly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenticular-galaxies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363179,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363107\/revisions\/363179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}