Hubble views galaxy's dazzling display
NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (the Air Pump). The galaxy can be seen slicing across the frame in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with its mix of bright patches of glowing gas, dark lanes of dust, bright core, and whirling, pinwheeling arms coming together to paint a beautiful celestial scene.
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NGC 3175 [Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.] |
The NGC 3175 group contains a couple of large spiral galaxies—the subject of this image and NGC 3137—and numerous lower-mass spiral and satellite galaxies. Galaxy groups are some of the most common galactic gatherings in the cosmos, and they comprise 50 or so galaxies all bound together by gravity.
This image comprises observations from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center [December 13, 2019]
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