barred spiral galaxy

J0107a is a barred spiral galaxy just like the Milky Way.

J0107a is the earliest and most massive barred spiral galaxy known to date, making it the best target for studying the evolution of barred spiral galaxies in the early Universe.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including astronomer Alexander de la Vega of the University of California, Riverside, has discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way that has been observed to date.

The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy: Officially “NGC-1365,″ this is a classic, gorgeous “barred” galaxy — a spiral with a central bar of stars that links two prominent, curving arms.

We live in a barred spiral galaxy, or one that swirls around with waving arms and has a bar-shaped structure in the middle composed largely of stars.