2023-08-11 13:58:31
Galaxia lenticular NGC 6684 – ESA/HUBBLE & NASA, R. TULLY
MADRID, 11 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684about 44 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pavo, bathes this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image in pale light.
Pavo, the Latin name for the peacock, is a constellation in the southern sky and one of four constellations known collectively as the Southern Birds.
Lenticular galaxies like NGC 6684 (lenticular means lens-shaped) they have a large disk but lack the prominent spiral arms of galaxies like the Andromeda galaxy. This leaves them somewhere between elliptical galaxies and spiral galaxies, giving these galaxies a fuzzy, ghostly appearance. NGC 6684 also lacks the dark dust lanes that traverse other galaxies, which adds to its spectral appearance.
The data for this image was captured during a census of the nearby universe titled Every Known Nearby Galaxy, whose goal is to observe all galaxies within 10 megaparsecs (32.6 million light-years) that the telescope has not yet visited. reports NASA.
Before this program started, Hubble had observed about 75% of these nearby galaxies. Completing this census will reveal information about the stars that make up a wide variety of galaxies, in a wide variety of environments.
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