File:A spiral disguised NGC 1032.jpg
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DescriptionA spiral disguised NGC 1032.jpg |
English: Resembling a wizard’s staff set aglow, NGC 1032 cleaves the quiet darkness of space in two in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
NGC 1032 is located about a hundred million light years away in the constellation Cetus (The Sea Monster). Although beautiful, this image perhaps does not do justice to the galaxy’s true aesthetic appeal: NGC 1032 is actually a spectacular spiral galaxy, but from Earth, the galaxy’s vast disc of gas, dust and stars is seen nearly edge-on. A handful of other galaxies can be seen lurking in the background, scattered around the narrow stripe of NGC 1032. Many are oriented face-on or at tilted angles, showing off their glamorous spiral arms and bright cores. Such orientations provide a wealth of detail about the arms and their nuclei, but fully understanding a galaxy’s three-dimensional structure also requires an edge-on view. This gives astronomers an overall idea of how stars are distributed throughout the galaxy and allows them to measure the “height” of the disc and the bright star-studded core. |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Hubble & NASA |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 14 May 2018 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 10:35, 9 March 2018 |
Date and time of digitizing | 00:28, 28 January 2017 |
Date metadata was last modified | 11:35, 9 March 2018 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:fab8f99f-1b97-de4b-a4cf-5d3caf14cc7a |
Keywords | NGC 1032 |
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