A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the sinuous spiral arms of a distant galaxy budding with new stars.
, with prominent and well-defined spiral arms, and estimated to be home to more than a trillion stars.
Hubble photographed the Pinwheel Galaxy in 2006, which, at the time, was the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy ever taken by the space telescope, according to the NASA statement. The recent photo of NGC 5486 was taken as part of an initiative to explore debris left behind by Type II, which are violent stellar explosions that occur following the rapid collapse of a massive star.
"As massive stars reach the end of their lives, they cast off huge amounts of gas and dust before ending their lives in titanic supernova explosions," NASA officials said in the statement."NGC 5486 hosted a supernova in 2004, and astronomers used the keen vision of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys to explore the aftermath in the hopes of learning more about these explosive events.
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