This Hubble Space Telescope image features multiple galaxies, possibly most visibly LEDA 58109, the only galaxy in the upper. Credit: ESA/Hubble & & NASA, W. Keel
This incredible luminescent image from the Hubble Space Telescope includes multiple galaxies, possibly most significantly LEDA 58109, the lone galaxy in the upper. LEDA 58109 is flanked by 2 more galactic items to its lower left– an active galactic nucleus (AGN) called SDSS J162558.14 +435746.4 that partly obscures the galaxy SDSS J162557.25 +435743.5, which appears to poke out to the right behind the AGN.
Sometimes galaxy classification is presented as something of a dichotomy: spiral and elliptical. The diverse range of galaxies in this image alone highlights the complex web of galaxy classifications that exist. This consists of galaxies that house very luminescent AGNs at their galaxies and cores whose odd shapes defy the category of either spiral or elliptical.
This collection of galaxies likewise illustrates the broad variety of names that galaxies have: some that are relatively brief, like LEDA 58109, and some that are really long and challenging to remember, such as the two galaxies to the. Since there are numerous cataloging systems that chart the celestial objects in the night sky, this is.
No one catalog is total, and they cover overlapping areas of the sky, a lot of galaxies belong to numerous various catalogs. For example, the galaxy on the right is LEDA 58109 in the LEDA galaxy database, but is likewise referred to as MCG +07 -34 -030 in the MCG galaxy catalog, and SDSS J162551.50 +435747.5 in the SDSS galaxy catalog– the same brochure that likewise notes the two galaxies to the left.
By ESA/Hubble
July 24, 2022