Discovered in 1779 by astronomer Charles Messier, the galaxy Messier 58 was one of the first galaxies recognized to have a spiral shape. It’s also the most distant of the objects included in Messier’s stargazing catalog, at 62 million light-years away: go.nasa.gov/4cXSAJN

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 ⬇️ go.nasa.gov/4sSMlvt

@NASAHubble most distant in the catalog and still managed to make the list feels like when u trek somewhere so remote you wonder if anyone's ever gonna see it

Stunning Hubble image of Messier 58! One of the first galaxies recognized as spiral when discovered in 1779, this barred beauty in Virgo is the most distant in Messier’s catalog at 62 million light-years. It hides a supermassive black hole 70 million times the Sun’s mass and features a rare ultra-compact nuclear ring bursting with new stars — plus two supernovae just a year apart in 1988 and 1989. What a gem!

Facts about Messier 58: -It is located in the Virgo Cluster, one of the nearest galaxy clusters -Messier cataloged it while searching for comets -It’s a barred spiral galaxy, not just a simple spiral -Light from it takes about 62 million years to reach Earth -It was among the first galaxies identified with a spiral structure

@NASAHubble 62 million light years is such a brain breaking distance like the light in that image left before dinosaurs were even gone and we're just casually looking at spiral arms

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@NASAHubble charles messier really said "imma catalog everything" and became immortal for it

@NASAHubble Beautiful.. Hubble has been so great at bringing us glimpses of the beauty of yet unknowns

@NASAHubble Beautiful light and colors!

@NASAHubble Barred spiral eternity.

@NASAHubble As someone who shoots narrowband from Central Florida, seeing Hubble resolve the dust lanes and star-forming regions in M58 this cleanly is humbling.

@NASAHubble Hubble's obs (IR, vis, UV) show M58's starburst nucleus w/ 70M☉ BH, rare ultra-compact nuclear star ring, & dust lanes w/ low arm activity from Virgo Cl. interactions; 2 SNe erupted in 1988 & 1989.

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@NASAHubble 1779

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@NASAHubble wow!

@NASAHubble Great 😊 😯

@NASAHubble Descoberta em 1779 era chamada e entendida como uma nebulosa, não é mesmo Sr Hubble?! Afinal, foi o Sr Hubble mesmo que somente no início da década de 1920 realmente “descobriu” a primeira galáxia, Andrômeda.

@NASAHubble Magnificent!