Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 Close Up Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) - ESA / Hubble Collaboration A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. This sharp view of the gorgeous island universe shows off a striking yellow nucleus and galactic disk. Dust lanes, small, pink star-forming regions, and young blue star clusters are embedded in the patchy, tightly wound spiral arms. In contrast, many other spirals exhibit grand, sweeping arms with large star-forming regions. NGC 2841 has a diameter of over 150,000 light-years, even larger than our own Milky Way, but this close-up Hubble image spans about 34,000 light-years along the galaxys inner region. X-ray images suggest that resulting winds and stellar explosions create plumes of hot gas extending into a halo around NGC 2841. You may also like to read cosmosup/fascinating-planets-outside-the-solar-system --------------------------------------------- You can See the full-depth-pixel pic on: •flickr/photos/53845452@N05/13168056594/lightbox Please dont forget to follow us on: • cosmosup • https://plus.google/+Cosmosupp • https://twitter/CosmossUp • pinterest/CosmosUp
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:00:00 +0000
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