The American space agency “NASA” has captured a new, stunning image of a spiral galaxy located 60 million light-years away from the planet, taken by high-tech equipment on board the “Hubble Space Telescope”, which has been swimming in space for many years, and has been far in space from Earth orbit. low.
The galaxy looks very impressive, and scientists decided to officially name it “NGC 4571”, and they hope to benefit greatly from it, according to the website of the British newspaper “The Sun”.
The new galaxy “NGC 4571” is actually one of more than a thousand orbiting galaxies in a cluster called the “Virgin”, and the cluster in which it was found has an interesting story of its own, as it takes its name from the name of an ancient Egyptian queen.
The location of the galaxy is named after an ancient Egyptian queen
The galaxy is part of a constellation called “Coma Berenices”, which refers to Queen “Berenice” II of Egypt, and the correct translation of these words is “Berenice’s poetry”.
Queen Berenice II ruled ancient Egypt about 2,200 years ago. She was born in Egypt in the year 280 BC, and she is the daughter of Magas, King of Cyrene, currently Libya, in addition to being the wife of King Ptolemy III.
The Hubble telescope has been glimpsing the far reaches of the universe since 1990 and its influence is still decisive to this day, but the new image that Hubble spotted for us was not the only great work of it, as scientists consider it extremely important, and provides enormous information of indispensable importance. about her.
The discovery of the new galaxy came as a result of hard work collecting observations
NASA describes the discovery of the new galaxy as the result of a treasure trove of collected observations, as the huge telescope with 66 high-resolution antennas in Chile, known as ALMA, also played a big role alongside Hubble.
A powerful pair of telescopes, ALMA and Hubble, provide experts with vital data for studying star formation and lay the foundation for exciting future scientific discoveries.