By NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
September 18, 2022
Found about 180 million light-years away, NGC 1961 lives in the constellation Camelopardalis.
Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 1961, which is situated about 180 million light-years away, in the constellation Camelopardalis. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington), R. Foley (University of California– Santa Cruz); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America).
In this spectacular freshly launched image from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its stunning spiral arms. Glittering, blue regions of fantastic young stars dot the dusty spiral arms winding around the galaxys radiant.
NGC 1961 is classified as an intermediate spiral and an AGN, or active stellar nuclei, kind of galaxy. Because they do not have a plainly specified bar of stars at their cores, intermediate spiral nebula fall between “barred” and “unbarred” spiral galaxies. AGN galaxies have really brilliant centers that frequently far beat the rest of the galaxy at particular wavelengths of light. These galaxies are thought to have supermassive great voids at their center churning out brilliant jets and winds that form their development. NGC 1961 is a relatively typical type of AGN that discharges low-energy-charged particles.
The data utilized to produce this image came from 2 proposals. One studied previously unseen Arp galaxies (a brochure of uncommon galaxies called the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies), while the other looked at the progenitors and surges of a range of supernovae.