NASA shares breathtaking view of ‘Fireworks Galaxy’ located 25.2 million light-years away

NASA on January 10 shared breathtaking view of spiral galaxy NGC 6946 dubbed as ‘Fireworks Galaxy’, situated 25.2 million light-years away from Earth. Taking to its official Twitter handle, administration informed astrophiles that dazzling galaxy is nicknamed ‘fireworks galaxy’ due to frequent supervas that occur inside its celestial mass which is “thing short of spectacular”.

NASA'S Hubble Telescope captured at least 10  scintillating supervae, that surpassed Milky Way’s on an aver one to two superva events per century, NASA explained. In ims’ phemenal details, NASA’s Hubble telescope depicted a cluster of stars, spiral arms of galaxy, and inhabiting stellar environments of NGC 6946 that gave aficionados a ‘visual retreat’. 

“We are able to marvel at NGC 6946 as it is a face-on galaxy, which means that we see galaxy “facing” us, rar than seeing it from side (kwn as edge-on),” NASA separately informed in a release. “ Fireworks Galaxy is furr classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy and as a starburst galaxy,” it added. Furrmore, administration explained features of Fireworks Galaxy, saying that concrete structure of NGC 6946 sits between a full spiral and a barred spiral galaxy, with a slight bar in its center that witnessed an “exceptionally high rate” of star formation. 

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[Fireworks galaxy is kwn for its supervas (seen in blue), but a mysterious X-ray explosion (green). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]

Involves black hole or neutron star

Nearly 25.2 million light-years away, NGC 6946 explodes a mysterious blast of intense X-ray light that has been creating phemenal fireworks since 1917. According to NASA astromers, it takes an estimated 25 million years for stellar explosions to reach Earth. In some of NASA’s imry, energetic green X-ray blasts can be seen erupting which brightens and fades over several hundred years. According to scientists, mysterious blast of energy is speculated to be a much more mesmeric explosion than just Superva. Astromers observed in  Astrophysical Journal that fireworks inside Fireworks galaxy involve black hole or neutron star. 

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