eso_ngc1232b December 3rd, 2009
Credit: ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R.Gendler and A. Hornstrup.
The striking, large spiral galaxy NGC 1232, and its distorted companion shaped like the greek letter "theta". The pair is located roughly 60 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus (The River). Billions of stars and dark dust are caught up in this beautiful gravitational swirl. The blue spiral arms with their many young stars and star-forming regions make a striking contrast with the yellow-reddish core of older stars. This image is based on data acquired with the 1.5 m Danish telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile, through three filters (B: 900 s, V: 400 s, R: 400 s).
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/ngc1232b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
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