2024-07-26 12:13:36
MADRID, July 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of spiral galaxy NGC 3430which is located 100 million light years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor.
Other stars close to the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 just outside the image framebut one is close enough that gravitational interaction is forming a star in NGC 3430, visible as bright blue spots near but outside the galaxy’s main spiral system, NASA reported.
This example of a galactic spiral has a bright core from which many mill-shaped arms appear to radiate. Dark dust lanes and bright star regions help define these spiral arms.
NGC 3430’s distinctive shape may be one of the reasons astronomer Edwin Hubble used it to help explain the classification of stars.
Edwin Hubble, the namesake of the Hubble Space Telescope, wrote a book in 1926 that described the breakdown of about a hundred stars based on their shape: spirals, tired spirals, lenticular, elliptical, or irregular.
This simple thesis was very influential, and the information systems used by astronomers today are still based on Edwin Hubble’s work.
NGC 3430 itself is a central barless spiral with open, clearly defined arms.classified today as a Sac galaxy.
#Hubble #detailed #picture #spiral #galaxy #NGC #million #light #years #Earth