ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Fox, L.
Jenkins, S. Van Dyk, A. Filippenko, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, D. de
Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)
This NASA/ESA Hubble
Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million
light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a
multi-talented light show, showing off an impressive array of different
celestial lights. Like any spiral galaxy, shining stars fill its disk, giving
the galaxy a beautiful glow. Along its two large arms, bubbles of hydrogen gas
shine in a striking red light fueled by radiation from infant stars shrouded
within. Near the galaxy’s center are some particularly spectacular stars
embedded within a ring of hot gas. These newly formed and extremely hot stars
emit powerful X-rays. Closer in, at the galaxy’s very center, sits an even
brighter source of X-rays, an active galactic nucleus. This X-ray powerhouse
makes NGC 1672 a Seyfert galaxy. It forms as a result of heated matter swirling
in the accretion disk around NGC 1672’s supermassive black hole.
By: NASA Hubble
Mission Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
Source: Hubble
Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights - NASA
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