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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s Hubble Telescope Spots Spiral Galaxy 49 Million Light-Years Away

By  //  November 11, 2024

galaxy known as NGC 1672

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. (NASA image)

(NASA) – This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado.

This galaxy is a multi-talented light show, showing off an impressive array of different celestial lights. Like any spiral galaxy, shining stars fill its disk, giving the galaxy a beautiful glow.

Along its two large arms, bubbles of hydrogen gas shine in a striking red light fueled by radiation from infant stars shrouded within.

Near the galaxy’s center are some particularly spectacular stars embedded within a ring of hot gas. These newly formed and extremely hot stars emit powerful X-rays. Closer in, at the galaxy’s very center, sits an even brighter source of X-rays, an active galactic nucleus.

This X-ray powerhouse makes NGC 1672 a Seyfert galaxy.

It forms as a result of heated matter swirling in the accretion disk around NGC 1672’s supermassive black hole.

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