Hubble Studies a Spectacular Spiral Galaxy

Not to be outdone by Webb's Nebula image of a couple of days ago the Hubble team have today released this also stunning image of Galaxy NGC 1961 , the Galaxy is located about 180 million light years away.

The galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its gorgeous spiral arms in this newly released image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Glittering, blue regions of bright young stars dot the dusty spiral arms winding around the galaxy’s glowing center.

NGC 1961 is an intermediate spiral and an AGN, or active galactic nuclei, type of galaxy. Intermediate spirals are in between “barred” and “unbarred” spiral galaxies, meaning they don’t have a well-defined bar of stars at their centers. AGN galaxies have very bright centers that often far outshine the rest of the galaxy at certain wavelengths of light. These galaxies likely have supermassive black holes at their cores churning out bright jets and winds that shape their evolution.
NGC 1961 is a fairly common type of AGN that emits low-energy-charged particles.
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There's life in the old girl yet.
Your turn Mr Webb.

Was looking for a funny cartoon of Hubble and James fighting over the love of the universe.. no luck sadly.

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Your turn Mr Webb.



Mr. Webb:

originally posted by: Spacespider
Was looking for a funny cartoon of Hubble and James fighting over the love of the universe.. no luck sadly.

That would be a good one. Just the concept is hilarious. It sounds like a Monty Python sketch.

That is a great angle to view the galaxy from-you really get an idea of the shape of the whole thing.
Some parts of the arms look way higher than the galactic centre-especially the dark area.
It gives the impression of a kind of whirlpool with steep sides.

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Thanks for these threads Gortex!

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When you're looking at this little picture on a computer screen, it's hard to imagine just how massive that galaxy is.

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Oh my gosh, how beautiful! So many wonders in the universe that God created.