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NGC 1512

Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Lee (STScI), T. Williams (Oxford), PHANGS Team
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Lee (STScI), T. Williams (Oxford), PHANGS Team

We’re getting to the point where every image is more spectacular than the last. NGC 1512 is the spitting image of order compared to some of the messy spiral galaxies on this list. Also in the constellation Horologium, this galaxy’s face-on center is nearly a circle, out of which spiral arms stretch out toward the dense, oval ring of material.

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