esahubble_heic1305a March 28th, 2013
Credit: NASA, ESA & A. van der Hoeven
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of spiral galaxy Messier 77 a galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, some 45 million light-years away from us. The streaks of red and blue in the image highlight pockets of star formation along the pinwheeling arms, with dark dust lanes stretching across the galaxys starry centre. The galaxy belongs to a class of galaxies known as Seyfert galaxies, which have highly ionised gas surrounding an intensely active centre.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1305a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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