noirlab_noao0703a February 21st, 2007
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T.A. Rector (NSF's NOIRLab/University of Alaska Anchorage) & H. Schweiker (WIYN/NSF's NOIRLab)
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 is located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis, “the giraffe.” Its face-on appearance in the sky — as opposed to our tilted and edge-on views of many other nearby galaxies, such as the large spiral galaxy Andromeda (M31) — makes IC 342 a prime target for studies of star formation and astrochemistry. The image, obtained in late 2006, was taken using the 64-megapixel Mosaic-1 digital imager on the Mayall 4-meter telescope. This image is the subject of NOAO press release 07-03.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0703a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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