NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning picture of an iconic spiral galaxy.
The galaxy - known officially as NGC 2903 - is located 30 million light years away in the constellation of Leo.
Its spiral shape is what most people think of when they picture a galaxy - being the shape of the Milky Way, as well as the nearby Andromeda and Triangulum Galaxies.
It consists of a flat rotating disc with a concentration of stars in the middle - known as the "bulge" - with arms reaching out from the centre.
New stars are born in these arms, meaning they often glow as brightly as the centre of the spiral.
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"Few of the universe's residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy," said the European Space Agency.
"These limelight-hogging celestial objects combine whirling, pinwheeling arms with scatterings of sparkling stars, glowing bursts of gas, and dark, weaving lanes of cosmic dust."
The image was captured as part of a Hubble survey, which observed the central regions of 145 nearby disc galaxies.
Astronomers are studying galaxies like these in order to learn more about the black holes that lurk at their cores, and how they interact with the stars, gas, and dust at the galaxy's centre.
