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Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Evil Eye Galaxy Located 17 Million Light-Years from Earth

NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of the Evil Eye galaxy, also known as NGC 4826, located 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. What stands out most is its bright yellow nucleus, which shines brightly amongst dark dust in brown and orange.

This relatively isolated spiral galaxy was first discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and then independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. Astronomers note that the inner disk contains the prominent dust lanes of the galaxy, while the the stellar population exhibits no measurable counter-rotation.

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First discovered in 1799, astronomers know this galaxy by its peculiar internal motion. The gas in the inner and outer regions move in opposite directions, which may be due to a recent galactic merger,” said NASA.

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Hubble Captures More Vivid Image of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1385 Located 30 Million Light-Years Away

Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST team
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a more vivid image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385 located 30 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. Featuring several arms mixed together and an overall oval shape, while its center glows brightly.

Bright pink patches and filaments of dark red dust can also be seen spread across the center. This more recent image boasts a pinkish-red and umber shades, whereas the former image was dominated by cool blues. This chromatic variation was made in order to represent the different number and type of filters used to collect the data used to make the respective images.

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It is understandable to be a bit confused as to how the same galaxy, imaged twice by the same telescope, could be represented so differently in two different images. The reason is that — like all powerful telescopes used by professional astronomers for scientific research — Hubble is equipped with a range of filters,” said the ESA.

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Hubble Captures Spanish Dancer Galaxy NGC 1566 Located 60 Million Light-Years Away

Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Calzetti and the LEGUS team, R. Chandar
Located 60 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado is spiral galaxy NGC 1566, also known as the Spanish Dancer Galaxy. This Hubble image reveals that it does not have either a clearly present or a clearly absent bar-shaped structure at its galactic center.

We see the entire Spanish Dancer Galaxy centered and face-on, with two spiral arms that each make only a half-turn from start to finish, resembling the shape of a comma. On second glance, you’ll also notice lanes of dark dust that follow the arms into the center before splitting into many swirling fibers around the glowing galactic core. The bright pink regions along the arms are signs of new star formation.

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The galaxy owes its nickname to the vivid and dramatic swirling lines of its spiral arms, which could evoke the shapes and colors of a dancer’s moving form,” said the ESA Hubble team.

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