17/03/2026
You're looking at the home of 40 billion stars! 🌟
Messier 95 is a barred spiral galaxy about 33 million light-years away, with glowing arms full of star birth activity.
Hubble captured these observations of M95 partly to study the connections between young stars and cold gas in star clusters: https://go.nasa.gov/4rE3DeV
Welcome to Hubble's Messier Marathon: 2026 Edition! We're sharing new Hubble images of cosmic objects from the Messier catalog, compiled by French astronomer Charles Messier in the 1700s. Come back tomorrow for another new image, and catch up here: https://go.nasa.gov/4lCvcUr
Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Lee (STScI), and R. Chandar (University of Toledo); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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This Hubble image of Messier 95 (M95, also called NGC 3351) reveals details in this beautiful barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Leo.
