This week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy in our backyard, cosmically speaking, taken as part of a project to image nearby galaxies.
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy in our backyard, cosmically speaking, taken as part of a project to image nearby galaxies. Galaxy UGCA 307 is located 26 million light-years away in the constellation of Corvus, or The Crow, a small constellation visible from the southern hemisphere which was documented as far back as 1,000 years BCE.
UGCA 307 doesn’t have a lot of structure, again unlike our Milky Way with its central bar and clearly defined spiral arms. Instead, this galaxy is wispy and hazy with a spattering of stars. The image was taken using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys instrument, which looks in the same part of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can perceive, called the visible light or optical range. It doesn’t see the ultraviolet radiation from the new stars, but it does see the effect that radiation has on the clouds of dust around star-forming regions.
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