NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has just continued to prove its importance in the field of astronomical research, bringing to mankind a wonderful image, showing the magical beauty of a celestial body. The lenticular galaxy lies 44 million light-years from Earth. Called NGC 6684, this galaxy is located in the constellation Pavo, visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
Lenticular galaxies (also called lenticular galaxies) contain many features that are different from spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way. Instead of separate spiral arms reaching out from the center, lenticular galaxies are more amorphous and diffuse, but still essentially have a central disk. This type of galaxy is located between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy, smooth and almost unremarkable.
Lenticular galaxies don’t have a lot of matter, or dust and gas floating between stars, so there isn’t a lot of matter to go into the process of creating new stars, and the rate of star formation is in These galaxies are also very low. In addition, the lack of structure in this type of galaxy is accentuated by the absence of dust and matter lines, making it appear even more “spooky” – as astronomers call it.
The image above is part of a research program called Every Known Nearby Galaxy, which is being carried out to use the Hubble telescope to observe every known galaxy within 10 megaparsecs (32.6 million USD). light years) from Earth that have not been photographed. Before the program began, Hubble had observed about 75% of these neighboring galaxies. This project is expected to reveal insights into the stars that make up a wide variety of galaxies, in a variety of environments.
Other galaxies observed in this program include LEDA 48062, a faint and relatively sparse galaxy, the small dwarf galaxy UGCA 307. There are also extremely detailed images of their neighbour. Ta, the Triangulum galaxy, shows the entire spiral face of the galaxy spanning nearly 20,000 light-years.