NGC 289: Swirl in the Southern Sky

nasa image
About 70 million gentle-years a long way-off, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 289 is larger than our gain Milky Procedure. Seen almost face-on, its shimmering core and colourful central disk give scheme to remarkably faint, bluish spiral arms. The intensive arms sweep well over 100 thousand gentle-years from the galaxy’s center. On the decrease beautiful on this fascinating, telescopic galaxy portrait the foremost spiral arm looks to encounter a tiny, fuzzy elliptical companion galaxy interacting with mountainous NGC 289. Obviously spiky stars are in the foreground of the scene. They lie within the Milky Procedure toward the southern constellation Sculptor.

Leave a comment

Sign in to post your comment or sign-up if you don't have any account.

yeoys logo