NGC 2841 is a beautiful example of a flocculent spiral galaxy – a type with discontinuous, featherlike, and patchy arms. A bright cusp of starlight distinguishes the galaxy’s center from the dust lanes that outline the group of almost white middle-aged stars. The far younger blue stars trace the spiral arms.
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Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgment: M. Crockett and S. Kaviraj (Oxford University, UK), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Whitmore (STScI), and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee
The center of Centaurus A has a supermassive black hole with a mass of 55 million solar masses! The sudden surge of star formation in this galaxy is likely due to it being created from a spiral galaxy and elliptical galaxy colliding together.
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on March 29th, 2022 at 7:08 UTC.
Despite being a spiral galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy has very little star formation as shown through infrared observations from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). However, a region known as NGC 604 is the largest stellar nursery between itself, the Milky Way, and the Andromeda Galaxy!
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on March 8th, 2022 at 20:17 UTC.
