NASA’s Hubble Telescope captures ‘big, beautiful’ blue galaxy 200,000 light-years away

NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope recently captured a breath-taking im of “big, beautiful and blue” galaxy GC 2336. According to a press te, spiral armed galaxy may look quite similar to our own Milky Way with its planetary distribution and chromatic features. However, “quintessential galaxy” is nearly 200,000 light-years across and at a distance of 100 million light-years away in rrn constellation of Camelopardalis ( Giraffe). 

In im shared by NASA, in centre, one can see a bright yellow orb and all throughout arms of galaxy, it is littered with millions of shiny dots, which are stars. According to press te, outer stars, bright silver/yellow towards arm, are younger stars. Whereas, centre with a more reddish concentration is older star system. 

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ncy informed that NGC 2336 was discovered in 1876 by German astromer Wilhelm Tempel. At time, Tempel had used most techlogically advanced equipment available to him, a 28-centimetre telescope. It is worth ting that NGC 2336 was a centre of interest for many astromers and galaxy had even experienced a Type-Ia superva, which is only observed superva in galaxy since its discovery 111 years earlier. 

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Hubble telescope captures Stingray Nebula

Meanwhile, Hubble Telescope has captured some phemenal ims of our cosmos and beyond. Last month, telescope had even captured Stingray Nebula, which has been fading precipitously since past two decades as its brightness diminished frantically. Hubble captured two ims 20 years apart. first im was taken with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in March 1996, where ing star appeared in good shape, but in second im taken in 2020, nebula’s central star was seen in its final sts of life. 

NASA said in a release that once bright and young nebula was longer standing out against black velvet background of vast universe. “This is very, very dramatic, and very weird,” said team member Martín A. Guerrero of Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain. “What we’re witnessing is a nebula’s evolution in real-time. In a span of years, we see variations in nebula. We have t seen that before with clarity we get with this view.”

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