Published 13:13 IST, September 20th 2020
Hubble captures galaxy with twisting patterns near constellation Hydra
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 2835 captured by Hubble consists of multiple spiral arms and has width just over half that of the Milky Way, according to NASA.
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On September 18, NASA featured a spectacular im taken by Hubble telescope observed in distant sourn constellation of Hydra, water snake. spiral galaxy NGC 2835 consisted of spiral arms and a dense supermassive black hole positioned in its center. According to NASA's release, rare galaxy observed near snake-like constellation visibly h twisting patterns to human eye and has an approximate width of half size of Milky Way galaxy. NGC 2835 mass was found to be million times than that of sun and h dense cold gases surrounded around its structure with several large star formation regions.
Galaxy was captured as part of PHANGS-HST, a survey with Hubble that "aims to study connections between cold gas and young stars in a variety of galaxies in local universe,” NASA revealed. Furr, re were vibrant blue areas, observed in outer spiral arms of many galaxies, witnessed in NGC 2835 that showed near-ultraviolet light emitted from it. This lightening indicates ongoing star formation, NASA said in press release. Also kwn by scientific names such as ESO 564-35, LEDA 26259, and UGCA 157, galaxy was first discovered by German astromer Wilhelm Tempel on April 13, 1884, according to a science journal. It is found to be situated some 65,000 light-years across and is estimated to be half size of milky way.
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[This Hubble im shows NGC 2835, an intermediate spiral galaxy approximately 28.5 million light-years away in constellation of Hydra. color im was me from separate exposures taken in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared regions of spectrum with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. Credit: NASA]
100,000 star-forming regions
unique spiral galaxy was photographed as Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS programme, an initiative that aimed to establish connections between cold gas and young stars in several galaxies in local Universe, Hubble astromers said in published research in an Astromy journal. “Expected to im over 100,000 gas clouds and star-forming regions outside Milky Way, this survey hopes to uncover and clarify many of links between cold gas clouds, star formation and overall shape and morphology of galaxies,” y ded.
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13:14 IST, September 20th 2020