Hubble Telescope Spots Weird-Looking Galaxy 120 Million Light-Years Away 1 Jun 2021, 13:48 UTC ·
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The spiral galaxy captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was named NGC 2276 and is part of the Cepheus constellation, which is 120 million light-years away. But that’s not what makes it the oddity of the Universe.
Although it looks normal at first sight even to the trained eye, a more focused look at the star cluster revealed its contorted shape with distorted, lopsided spiral arms caused by its neighbor, galaxy NGC 2300.
The images captured by the Hubble telescope show the interaction between the two galaxies. The galactic neighbor NGC 2300 stretched the edges (called spiral arms) of our freak nebula because of its gravitational pull, making the latter look asymmetrical and as if it s orientated face-on to our planet.
The Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of a deformed galaxy previously listed by astronomers among the strangest stellar groupings in the known Universe.
NASA and ESA have shared an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope showing the trailing arms of a galaxy called NGC 2276. The galaxy is about 120 million
I can t wait for the James Webb Space Telescope on May 28, 2021, 11:09
In a nutshell: NASA and the European Space Agency have shared a new image of a strange spiral galaxy located approximately 120 million light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. NGC 2276 was first discovered by Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke in 1876 and has fascinated astronomers ever since due to its contorted appearance
The myriad spiral galaxies in our universe almost all look like fried eggs. A central bulge of aging stars is like the egg yolk, surrounded by a disk of stars that are the egg white. The galaxy in this Hubble photo looks like it is sliding off the frying pan. The central bulge is off in one corner relative to the surrounding disk of bright young blue stars.
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IMAGE: This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the trailing arms of NGC 2276, a spiral galaxy 120 million light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus. At first. view more
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Sell
Acknowledgement: L. Shatz
This striking image showcases the unusually contorted appearance of NGC 2276, an appearance caused by two different astrophysical interactions one with the superheated gas pervading galaxy clusters, and one with a nearby galactic neighbour.
The interaction of NGC 2276 with the intracluster medium the superheated gas lying between the galaxies in galaxy clusters has ignited a burst of star formation along one edge of the galaxy. This wave of star formation is visible as the bright, blue-tinged glow of newly formed massive stars towards the left side of this image, and gives the galaxy a strangely lopsided appearance. NGC 2276 s recent burst of star formation is also related to the appearanc