Rare galaxy with a luminous heart

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Rare galaxy with a luminous heart

Post by Dragon Sat Oct 07, 2023 9:38 pm

If you thought imagining the scale of our sun is stressful — it's 333,000 times more massive than the entire Earth — you'll be pleased to know the Hubble Space Telescope has reminded us of something even bigger.

There's a galaxy out in space that's 1.1 trillion times more massive than our host star.

It's named NGC 612, and we now have a new image of it.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, NGC 612 isn't as big as the Milky Way.

The galaxy we live in is approximately 1.5 trillion times more massive than the sun.

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Re: Rare galaxy with a luminous heart

Post by Dragon Sat Oct 07, 2023 9:40 pm

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(Image credit: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, ESA, A. Barth (University of California - Irvine), and B. Boizelle (Brigham Young University) ; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America))

A striking orange and blue streak fills this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble’s visible and infrared capabilities captured this edge-on view of lenticular galaxy NGC 612.

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