All galaxies are good, even the most bizarre ones. But there is something about spiral galaxies that fills my heart with joy. Maybe it’s because of the swirling symmetry. This may be because our galaxy (the Milky Way galaxy) is spiral.An image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1961 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.New pictureevokes all kinds of emotions in the author.
Spiral galaxy NGC 1961 photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope
Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington), R. Foley (University of California – Santa Cruz); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)
This beautiful spiral is located in the constellation Giraffe, 180 million light-years from Earth.
NASA released this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on September 14. “Bright young stars form clusters of sparkling blue stars that entwine the sprawling arms of the galaxy in whirlwinds of dust from its bright center,” he explains poetically.
Shiny NGC 1961
Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington), R. Foley (University of California – Santa Cruz); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)
There are many types of spiral galaxies. NASA classifies NGC 1961 as an “intermediate spiral galaxy”. Intermediate spiral galaxies fall somewhere between spiral galaxies with a distinct central bar of stars and spiral galaxies without such a bar.
NGC 1961 is also a galaxy with an “active galactic nucleus” (AGN), a particularly bright object at the center of the galaxy.
This article is from Red Ventures Overseasarticlewas published by Asahi Interactive for Japan.
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