Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA, G. Folatelli
NGC 613, first discovered in 1798 by German-English astronomer William Hershel, is a galaxy that is 67 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Sculptor.
Here appears in a new image of the NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 613 is a beautiful example of a spiral galaxy. It is easy to distinguish as such due to its well-defined central beam and long arms, which rotate loosely around its core. As can be seen from surveys, about two-thirds of the spiral galaxies, our own are included Milky Way galaxy, contains a bar.
Recent studies have shown that rods are now more common in galaxies than in the past, giving us important clues about the formation and evolution of galaxies.
A spiral galaxy is a spiral system with a central bar structure consisting of stars. Bars are found in about half of all spiral galaxies. Rods usually affect the movements of stars and interstellar gas within spiral systems and can also affect spiral arms. The Milky Way galaxy, where the solar system is located, is classified as a spiral galaxy.