Published 19:14 IST, October 3rd 2020
'Looking this good...': NASA's Hubble captures spectacular image of nearby galaxy
NASA, October 2, shared a spectacular photograph of NGC 5643, a galaxy which is a part of Lupus. The image of the spiral galaxy was captured by Hubble.
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NASA, October 2, shared a spectacular photograph of NGC 5643, a galaxy which is a part of constellation Lupus. im of spiral galaxy was captured by ncy’s Hubble Telescope and it took a total of nine hours for scientists to im. “Looking this good isn’t easy; 30 different exposures, for a total of nine hours of observation time, toger with high resolution and clarity of Hubble, were needed to produce an im of such high level of detail and beauty,” ESA which jointly owns Hubble with NASA wrote on its website.
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Recent superva event
"beautiful” NGC 5643 is about 60 million light-years away from planet earth in constellation Lupus. It has been host of a recent superva event, which cant be seen in im. As per European ncy (ESA), superva (2017cbv) was a specific in which a “white dwarf steals so much mass from a companion star” that it becomes unstable and explodes. “ explosion releases significant amounts of energy and lights up that part of galaxy,” NASA explained.
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Last months, NASA shared ar rare photo of globular cluster NGC 1805, located near edge of Large Mllanic Cloud. Taking to its official Instagram handle, NASA shared mystic photo of tight cluster of thousands of stars located near satellite of Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope. “In its center, thousands of stars are packed 100 to 1,000 times closer to one ar than nearest stars are to our Sun,” NASA explained in caption of post. “ striking difference in star colours is illustrated in im, which combines different s of light: blue stars, shining brightest in near-ultraviolet light, and red stars, illuminated in red and near-infrared,” it ded.
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19:14 IST, October 3rd 2020